Distribution and heritability of peripheral eye length in Chinese children and adolescents: The Guangzhou Twin Eye Study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1048-1053

  Ding, Xiaohu ^a   Wang, Decai ^a   Huang, Qunxiao ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Chang, Jessica ^a   He, Mingguang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERIPHERAL EYE LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84874973229     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10066     Document Type: Article

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