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Evidence That Emmetropization Buffers Against Both Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Myopia

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2020

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Alfred Pozarickij, Clair A. Enthoven, Neema Ghorbani‐Mojarrad, Denis Plotnikov, Milly S. Tedja, Annechien E. G. Haarman, J. Willem L. Tideman, Jan Roelof Polling, Kate Northstone, Cathy Williams,
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Abstract

Risk factors for myopia were associated with much larger effects in children in the extremes of the refractive error distribution, providing indirect evidence that emmetropization buffers against both genetic and environmental risk factors.

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