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Functional photoreceptor loss revealed with adaptive optics: an alternate cause of color blindness.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Jun 2004
Carroll Joseph, Neitz Maureen, Hofer Heidi, Neitz Jay, Williams David R
Abstract excerpt
There is enormous variation in the X-linked L/M (long/middle wavelength sensitive) gene array underlying "normal" color vision in humans. This variability has been shown to underlie individual variation in color matching behavior. Recently, red-green color blindness has also been shown to be associated with distinctly different genotypes. This has opened the possibility that there may be important phenotypic...
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