The Influence of Parental Myopia on Children's Myopia in Different Generations of Parent-Offspring Pairs in South Korea.

Hyunmin AhnIl Suk Lyu Tyler Hyung Taek Rim

Published in: Seminars in ophthalmology (2017)

With myopia, the environmental portion of the phenotypic variance increased and the additive genetic portion decreased as South Korea became more urbanized. With high myopia, the additive genetic portion remained roughly constant at approximately 60%, despite the urbanization.

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