Heritability estimate for refractive err
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Jaakko M. Teikari; Jaakko Kaprio; Markku K. Koskenvuo; Antti Vannas; D. C. Rao
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Article
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1988
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The population-based Finnish Twin Cohort study was used to establish a heritability estimate for refractive errors especially for myopia. The twin cohort was derived from adult same-sexed twins in Finland. The total number of twins with both members alive in 1984 was 23,570. Of these, 3,676 twin pai