The genetics of tritan disturbances.
Tritan (blue-green) colour vision disturbances have been found in 79 individuals in six families, revealing an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance with a wide variability of test results within families. Evidence is presented that it is--in contradistinction to the X-chromosomally inherited red-green defects--incorrect to make a subdivision between dichromasia (tritanopia) and anomalous trichromasia (tritanomaly). On the basis of three small screening series, totalling 1900 individuals, the frequency of tritan disturbances is estimated to be around 2 per 1000. Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
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