Heritability of spherical equivalent: A population-based twin study among 63- to 76-year-old female twins

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1908-1911

  Prssinen, Olavi ^a   Jauhonen, Hanna Mari ^b   Kauppinen, Markku ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^d   Koskenvuo, Markku ^d   Rantanen, Taina ^c  

^a Central Hospital of Central Finland   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LENS POWER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MYOPIA; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SPHERICAL EQUIVALENT; AGING; DISABILITY; FINLAND; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TWINS;

AGED; AGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77957579888     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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