Position of a 'green-red' hybrid gene in the visual pigment array determines colour-vision phenotype

Nature Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 90-93

  Hayashi, Takaaki ^a   Motulsky, Arno G ^a   Deeb, Samir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYBRID GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032932046     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/8798     Document Type: Article

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