title: The genes for color vision.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nathans
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D014960:X Chromosome