Heritability of Refractive Error and Familial Aggregation of Myopia in an Elderly American Population

PURPOSE: To determine the heritability of refractive error and the familial aggregation of myopia in an older population. METHODS: Seven hundred fifty-nine siblings (mean age, 73.4 years) in 241 families were recruited from the Salisbury Eye Evaluation (SEE) Study in eastern Maryland. Refractive err...

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Main Authors: Wojciechowski, Robert, Congdon, Nathan, Bowie, Heidi, Munoz, Beatriz, Gilbert, Donna, West, Sheila K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092734/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15851555
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.04-0740
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