Visual acuity and X-linked color blindness

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 447-453

  Jägle, Herbert ^a   de Luca, Emanuela ^a   Serey, Ludwig ^a   Bach, Michael ^b   Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color vision; Pigment genes; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; VISUAL ACUITY; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CONES (RETINA); GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OPSIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33645760940     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0086-4     Document Type: Article

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