Expression of L cone pigment gene subtypes in females

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3221-3225

  Neitz, Maureen ^a   Kraft, Timothy W ^b   Neitz, Jay ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone pigment gene expression; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; PIGMENT; SERINE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONES (RETINA); EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETINAL PIGMENTS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031664737     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00076-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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