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Genetic Factors in Myopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Jon L. Karlsson
Jon L. Karlsson*
Affiliation:
Napa State Hospital, Napa, California, USA
*
1380 Thompson Avenue, Napa, California 94558, USA

Abstract

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A school population has been screened to locate same-sexed twins with myopia and also to compare intelligence test performance of myopic and nonmyopic individuals. Augmentation of the twin data by a survey of the world literature has led to the identification of a total of 106 MZ twin pairs, 100 of them concordant for myopia, as well as 41 DZ pairs, 12 concordant. Myopic students score eight points higher on IQ tests than nonmyopes, the entire bell shaped distribution curve being shifted to a higher range. The intellectual gain precedes in time the development of nearsightedness.

Type
7. Twin Studies in Medical and Clinical Genetics
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 292 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1976

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