Evaluating the human X-chromosome pigment gene promoter sequences as predictors of L:M cone ratio variation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-208

  McMahon, Carrie ^a   Neitz, Jay ^a   Neitz, Maureen ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Cone photopigments; L:M cone ratio; Opsin genes

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VISUAL PIGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA CONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 2442504475     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.3.7     Document Type: Article

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