The genes for color vision.

J. Nathans

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0289-42

The genes for color vision.

J. Nathans

Howard Hughes Medical Institution

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Three centuries of experimentation in optics, psychophysics and biochemistry established the dependence of color vision on three kinds of light-absorbing molecules, or pigments, in the cone cells of the retina. The author has isolated the genes that encode the pigments and has identified genetic anomalies that lead to color blindness.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	42-49
Number of pages	8
Journal	Scientific American
Volume	260
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0289-42
State	Published - Feb 1989

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