blue cone monochromacy

Summary

DOID:0050679 - blue cone monochromacy

Disease Ontology Definition:An achromatopsia that is characterized by severely impaired color discrimination, low visual acuity, nystagmus, photophobia due to the absence of functional long wavelength-sensitive and medium wavelength-sensitive cones in the retina and has_material_basis_in alteration in the red (OPN1LW) and green (OPN1MW) visual pigment gene cluster on chromosome Xq28 or in the locus control region for the red and green pigment genes, located adjacent to and 5-prime of the pigment gene cluster.

Synonyms:

Echinobase Genes Genes associated with this Disease Ontology entry or its descendents or its corresponding OMIM entries

Genes associated with this Disease Ontology entry or its descendents or its corresponding OMIM entries

: opn1lw

MIM:

MIM:303700 - blue cone monochromacy; bcm

MIM:303700 - blue cone monochromacy; bcm

Other Model Organisms: Alliance, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD

Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee

Parent(s): achromatopsia (is_a), X-linked recessive disease (is_a)