Individual variation in the size of the human red and green visual pigment gene array

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1040-1043

  Macke, Jennifer P ^a   Nathans, Jeremy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

pulsed field gel electrophoresis; red green color vision; visual pigments

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COLOR PERCEPTION; DNA; DNA PROBES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030987033     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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