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BRUCE E. SPIVEY, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1965;74(3):327-333.

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Introduction

The inheritance of congenital monochromatism has been variously attributed to an autosomal, incomplete sex-linked¹ and X-linked recessive² modes of transmission. This confusion has arisen at least in part from the fact, as recent psychophysical measurements^3-6 make abundantly clear, that there are several different varieties of monochromatism. Although these varieties can be differentiated from each other only by rather elaborate psychophysical measurements (ones rarely used in genetic studies), there is no reason to expect that they will all have the same means of genetic transmission.

In the present paper some of the psychophysical and other ophthalmological findings in a pedigree with an X-linked recessive mode of inheritance (Fig 1) are presented. In the subsequent⁷ paper the results of further tests will be described which suggest that this family has a rare atypical form of congenital monochromatism.

Report of Cases

Monochromats

CASE 1 (VI-16; Fig 1). . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Iowa City

From the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 26, 1965.

Reprint requests to the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals, Iowa City 52241.

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