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My brother and i both tested positive for colorblindness, but neither of our parents are?
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X-linked: Color blindness is x-linked and you got it from your mother. I take it that you are a boy/man. Your mother is not affected because she has two x-chromosomes and only one is defective. You and your brother happened to have inherited the defective x-chromosome from your mother. Since men have only one x-chromosome inheriting a defective one manifests itself as color blindness.
Answered 7/6/2012
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