Heritability of refractive error and familial aggregation of myopia in an elderly American population

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1588-1592

  Wojciechowski, Robert ^a,c   Congdon, Nathan ^a,b   Bowie, Heidi ^b   Munoz, Beatriz ^b   Gilbert, Donna ^b   West, Sheila K ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CAUCASIAN; EYE REFRACTION; GENETICS; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIBLING; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SIBLINGS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 20444491538     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0740     Document Type: Article

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