L-cone pigment genes expressed in normal colour vision

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3213-3219

  Sjoberg, Stacy A ^a   Neitz, Maureen ^a   Balding, Shawn D ^a   Neitz, Jay ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Cone pigment; Pigment gene expression; Pigment genes

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031669769     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00367-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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