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IN a previous communication1, it was shown that women with known colour-blind relatives were significantly more often red-green weak to a slight extent than women taken at random. This carried the implication that red-green blindness must be an incompletely recessive Mendelian character (although sex-linked), because a large proportion of the women with known colour-blind relatives must be heterozygous for that defect. Several later experiments have confirmed that conclusion, essentially the same results .being obtained with each new group tested.
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PICKFORD, R. Sex Differences in Colour Vision. Nature 159, 606–607 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159606b0
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