Molecular genetic detection of female carriers of protan defects
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چکیده
Females heterozygous for congenital colour vision defects are of interest because they are believed to have cone photoreceptor ratios and cone photopigments that differ from normal. We describe a molecular genetic method to identify protan carriers that involves characterizing the genes that occur in the most upstream position in each of the X-chromosome photopigment gene arrays.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Vision Research
دوره 38 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998