Why do albinos and other hypopigmented mutants lack normal binocular vision, and what else is abnormal in their central visual pathways?

Eye

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-221

  Guillery, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBINISM; BINOCULAR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030006925     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1996.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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