Published by admin on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 5:00pm
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: April 3, 2023
Just 250 or so people live on the Pacific atoll Pingelap, and about 10% of them are completely colorblind. This isn’t ordinary colorblindness, though. It’s the result of a rare hereditary condition called achromatopsia that inhibits development of cone cell color receptors in their eyes. The prevalence can be traced to a tribal chief on the island, who passed the condition to the generation that followed him. It’s continued ever since. By comparison, achromatopsia affects about 1 in every 30,000 Americans.
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