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Maureen Neitz, PhD; Jay Neitz, PhD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:691-700.

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INTRODUCTION

Color is an extremely important component of the information that we gather with our eyes. Most of us use color so automatically that we fail to appreciate how important it is in our daily activities. It serves as a nonlinguistic code that gives us instant information about the world around us. From observing color, for example, we can find the bee sting on an infant's arm even before it begins to swell by looking for the little spot where the infant's skin is red. We know when fruit is ripe; the ripe banana is yellow not green. We know when meat is cooked because it is no longer red. When watching a football game, we can instantly keep track of the players on opposing teams from the colors of their uniforms. Using color, we know from a distance which car is ours in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

COLOR VISION TERMINOLOGY

CONGENITAL RED-GREEN COLOR VISION DEFECTS

Dichromacy

Anomalous Trichromacy

Protanomaly

Chimeric Genes

Deuteranomaly

Differences in Vision Between Persons With Color Defects and Persons With Normal Color Vision

Medical Implications of Color Blindness

Inheritance Patterns

SPECTRAL TUNING OF L AND M PIGMENTS

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SEVERITY OF COLOR VISION DEFICIENCY

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF RED-GREEN COLOR VISION

TOWARD A GENETIC DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR RED-GREEN COLOR BLINDNESS

From the Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

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