Myopia and personality: The genes in myopia (GEM) personality study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 882-886

  Van De Berg, Robert ^a   Dirani, Mohamed ^a,b   Chen, Christine Y ^a,b   Haslam, Nicholas ^a   Baird, Paul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGREEABLENESS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTROVERSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; TWINS; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EYE REFRACTION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 41949133160     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0930     Document Type: Article

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