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Giving in to the blues

Nature Genetics volume 24, pages 99–100 (2000)Cite this article

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The molecular players that direct the development of mammalian photoreceptors are slowly coming into focus. A study that elucidates the cause of enhanced S-cone syndrome, a disorder that may be caused by a distortion of retinal cell fate, reveals one such factor—although questions about its effects remain.

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Figure 1: The eye is a highly specialized structure that captures light and focuses it on the thin sheet of neural tissue, the retina, that lines the inside surface of the globe.
Figure 2: The photoreceptor mosaic of humans comprises blue, red and green cones and rod photoreceptors.

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