Localisation of the human blue cone pigment gene to chromosome band 7q31.3-32

J Fitzgibbon; B Appukuttan; S Gayther; D Wells; J Delhanty; D M Hunt

doi:10.1007/BF00218919

Localisation of the human blue cone pigment gene to chromosome band 7q31.3-32

Hum Genet. 1994 Jan;93(1):79-80. doi: 10.1007/BF00218919.

Authors

J Fitzgibbon¹, B Appukuttan, S Gayther, D Wells, J Delhanty, D M Hunt

Affiliation

¹ Department of Molecular Genetics, University of London, UK.

PMID: 8270261
DOI: 10.1007/BF00218919

Abstract

Blue cone pigment (BCP) is one of three types of cone photoreceptors responsible for normal colour vision. In this study, the BCP gene has been localised to chromosome 7q31.3-32 by fluorescent in situ hybridisation of cosmid clones containing the gene. This is consistent with previous mapping of the BCP gene to chromosome 7q31-35.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cells, Cultured
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7*
Color Perception
DNA Probes
Genetic Linkage / genetics*
Humans
In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
Lymphocytes
Oligonucleotides / chemistry
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells*
Retinal Pigments / genetics*

Substances

DNA Probes
Oligonucleotides
Retinal Pigments

Grants and funding

Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom