what causes colour blindness
Color blindness has been known to result from a number of causes: 1  Shaken Baby Syndrome: This can cause retina and brain damage and therefore can cause color blindness in infants and children. 2  The damage is permanent so the effects will be carried on into adult life.nherited color blindness is usually the result of receiving a genetically mutated gene on the X chromosome; however research has shown that mutations that can lead to color blindness originate from in excess of 19 different chromosomes and many different genes.