Heritability of peripheral refraction in Chinese children and adolescents: The guangzhou twin eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-111

  Ding, Xiaohu ^a   Lin, Zhi ^a   Huang, Qunxiao ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Congdon, Nathan ^a   He, Mingguang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; ASIAN; CHINA; GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857167384     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8716     Document Type: Article

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