Homozygosity mapping of the a chromatopsia locus in the Pingelapese

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1679-1685

  Winick, Jeffrey D ^a   Blundell, Maude L ^a   Galke, Brandi L ^a   Salam, Ambar A ^a   Leal, Suzanne M ^a   Karayiorgou, Maria ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; FAMILY STUDY; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME MAP; COLOR VISION DEFECT; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; MICRONESIA; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0033237814     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302423     Document Type: Article

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