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An A-71C substitution in a green gene at the second position in the red/green visual-pigment gene array is associated with deutan color-vision deficiency.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Mar 2003
Ueyama Hisao, Li Yao-Hua, Fu Gui-Lian, Lertrit Patcharee, Atchaneeyasakul La-ongsri, Oda Sanae, Tanabe Shoko, Nishida Yasuhiro, Yamade Shinichi, Ohkubo Iwao
Abstract excerpt
We studied 247 Japanese males with congenital deutan color-vision deficiency and found that 37 subjects (15.0%) had a normal genotype of a single red gene followed by a green gene(s). Two of them had missense mutations in the green gene(s), but the other 35 subjects had no mutations in either the exons or their flanking introns. However, 32 of the 35 subjects, including all 8 subjects with pigment-color defect, a...
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