Perspective: How might emmetropization and genetic factors produce myopia in normal eyes?

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Siegwart Jr , John T ^a   Norton, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

axial length; emmetropization; focal plane; gene environment interaction; myopia

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LENGTH; EMMETROPIZATION; FOCAL PLANE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MYOPIA;

GENES; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

FOCUSING;

ANIMAL; EMMETROPIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EMMETROPIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MYOPIA;

EID: 79952192160     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31820b053d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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