Applanation tension and axial length of the eyeball.

Abstract

Armaly (i 967a) found, from two independent studies of first-degree relatives with clinically normal eyes, that the level of ocular tension is genetically determined and that the mode of inheritance is polygenic multifactorial in nature. In a previous study (Armaly, I966), he showed that the applanation tension in one partner of a marital pair is independent of the other's, which led to the conclusion that environmental influence is small.