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THE BODY BEAUTIFULI have been told that only men suffer from colour-blindness. Is this true? And if so why?
Lawrence Alexander, Bradford, UK
No, a female friend of mine is colour blind.
Francesco Nardone, London, UK
Colour-blindness is caused by a recessive gene on the X chromosome. Men are far more likely to be colour-blind than women because they only have one X chromosome, whereas women have two and can have one colour-blindness gene while retaining good colour vision.
Chris M, Durham, UK
Women do suffer, although it is between 5 and 10 times more common in men.
Benjy Arnold, London UK
Women do suffer from it, although it is between 5 and 10 times more common in men.
Benjy Arnold, London, UK
My Dad is colour-blind and so I (being a girl) carry the colour blindness gene on one of my X chromosomes. I if I marry a man who is colour-blind and we have a daughter there would be a 50% chance of her being colour blind.
Helen, London England
its not true. my mother worked with a woman who was totally colour blind. she was very nice but had terrible dress scence, obviously.
