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Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2643825 DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0289-42
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Am ISSN: 0036-8733 Impact factor: 2.142