New aspects of an old theme: The genetic basis of human color vision

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1257-1262

  Wissinger, Bernd ^a   Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; REVIEW; SEX LINKAGE; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0032231650     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302127     Document Type: Article

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