Abstract

At the 1988 ARVO meeting we presented Rayleigh match midpoint and photometric match data collected from a population of nonrelated males and from family members. Photometric matches between a 667- and 551-nm stimulus were obtained using heterochromatic modulation photometry (HMP). We employed statistical methods to determine whether the source of variation for each of these traits was due to allelic variation at a single gene locus, variation at multiple loci (polygenic), or environmental factors. Results indicated that variations in Rayleigh match midpoints and HMP photometric matches in observers with normal color vision were each consistent with allelic variation at a single gene locus.

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