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We calculated the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to quantify the ability of chromatic contrast sensitivity to detect the early visual function changes in non-DON patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>S-cone contrast sensitivity in non-DON patients was found to be lower than that of healthy controls (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001), whereas the sensitivities to L- and M-cone Gabor patches were similar between these two groups (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.297, 0.666, respectively). Our analysis of the ROC curve revealed that the sensitivity to S-cone had the highest index to discriminate non-DON patients from healthy controls (AUC = 0.846, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). The deficit of S-cone was significantly correlated with muscle index in non-DON patients (<jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic> = 0.576, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>There is a selective S-cone deficit in the early stage of TAO. 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