If you wear glasses for nearsightedness and your doctor hasn't talked to you about your high risk of things like floaters, retinal detachment, or glaucoma, your

If you wear glasses for nearsightedness and your doctor hasn't talked to you about your high risk of things like floaters, retinal detachment, or glaucoma, your nearsightedness isn't very severe. Good for you that your vision is barely a real problem. For people who have a real, genetically heritable risk of going blind well before they even reach old age, that kind of research is very much of interest.