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I thought myopia has a significant environmental component, eg doing most of our development indoors instead of outside in bright sunlight?
by alnwlsn 2y ago
I thought myopia has a significant environmental component, eg doing most of our development indoors instead of outside in bright sunlight?
- renewiltord 2y agoMyopia is considered a highly heritable condition. See sources 12-17 on this paper as a starting point https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8947159/#B12-children-09-00382 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8947159/#B12-childr... That does not mean that there is no environmental factor, but it does mean there is a genetic factor.