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Scientific American

February 1, 1989

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The Genes for Color Vision

Recently isolated, the genes encoding the color-detecting proteins of the human eye have yielded new clues about the evolution of normal color vision and the genetic bases of color blindness

By Jeremy Nathans

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Jeremy Nathans is a professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience and ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 260 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “The Genes for Color Vision” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 260 No. 2 (), p. 42
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0289-42
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