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The Incidence of Inherited Defects of Colour-Vision in Eight Endogamous Groups of Maharashtrian Brahmins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

K. C. Malhotra
K. C. Malhotra*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Anthropology, Deccan College, Poona University

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Data on defective sex-linked colour vision has been reported on 1580 male subjects drawn from eight endogamous groups of Maharashtrian Brahmins. The range of variation of affected persons is between 0.00 to 8.58%, with an average of 3.97%. The ratio of deuton to proton genes is 2.54: 1.

A great deal of heterogeneity is observed in the groups investigated.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 417 - 421
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1967

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