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[Genetics of congenital color vision defects. I. Common types of color blindness].
Klinika oczna - 1 Jan 2000
Krawczyński M R
Abstract excerpt
Normal human colour vision is based on the presence of 3 kinds of cones containing 3 different visual pigments, sensitive to short (blue), middle (green) and long (red) wavelengths. Congenital defects of colour vision are based on handicap or total loss of these pigments' function, usually a result of changes in their coding genes. The common types of colour blindness, referred to red-green axis, are present in...
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