Selective breeding for susceptibility to myopia reveals a gene-environment interaction

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4003-4011

  Chen, Yen Po ^a,b   Hocking, Paul M ^c   Wang, Ling ^a   Považay, Boris ^a,d   Prashar, Ankush ^a,e   To, Chi Ho ^f,g   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^a   Feldkaemper, Marita ^h   Hofer, Bernd ^a,d   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a,d   Schaeffel, Frank ^h   Guggenheim, Jeremy A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^g SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; LENS IMPLANT; LENS SIZE; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITREOUS EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHICKEN; EYE FIXATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MONOCULAR VISION; NEWBORN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICKENS; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; LENSES; MYOPIA; SELECTION, GENETIC; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 80051630970     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-7044     Document Type: Article

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