L-cone pigment genes expressed in normal colour vision
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L-cone pigment genes expressed in normal colour vision
To directly test the hypothesis that only two pigment genes are expressed from the X-chromosome array, we examined expressed M and L pigment gene sequences from > 100 male eye donors. In this sample, there were eight men who expressed high levels of more than one L pigment gene in addition to M pigment genes. The fact that these eyes expressed both L and M pigment genes at significant levels su...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Vision Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(97)00367-2