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A PEDIGREE which includes a green anomalous aunt and niece, and no male colour-vision defectives, is of special interest, because it supports the two-locus theory of the inheritance of red–green colour vision defects, due to Waaler1 and Franceschetti2,3, and modified by Pickford4.
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PICKFORD, R. A Pedigree for Green Anomaly. Nature 169, 503 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169503a0
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