Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an observational analysis, Choquet and colleagues assessed 54,755 non-Hispanic white individuals (58% women) ...

Ocular and systemic syndromes associated with myopia, and results from familial aggregation studies, heritability estimates, segregation analyses, linkage studies and, more recently, genome-wide ...

A gene variant identified in children was linked to the pathogenesis of myopia and rapid progression of refractive error, regardless of original refractive status, according to a study. "These results ...

"New genes for short-sightedness: 24 new genes that cause refractive errors and myopia identified." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 02 / 130210143252.htm (accessed December 9, ...

Understanding genetic and environmental factors that together contribute to the development of myopia is an international research priority. We have investigated the feasibility and accuracy of ...

Nikkhil K Masurkar Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 08:00 Hrs [IST] Myopia is a widespread vision issue affecting over two ...

Six hundred and seventy-four consecutive uncomplicated myopic LASIK surgeries, performed by a single surgeon, either using the Technolas 217 planoscan (n=372) or the NIDEK EC 5000 (n=302), were ...

Starting in 2017, Dr. Aller spearheaded a prospective, registered clinical trial (NCT03358862) with the objective of quantifying changes in vision (refractive error) and eye shape (axial length) in ...

“The issues arising from prolonged time on phones and looking at computer screens are risk factors for getting myopia or what people in lay language call ...

For our eyes to be able to see, light rays must be bent or "refracted" so they can focus on the retina, the nerve layer that lines the back of the eye. The cornea and the lens refract light rays. The ...

Four ocular structures contribute to the refractive apparatus of the human eye: cornea, lens, and aqueous and vitreous humors. Incoming light rays are refracted onto the retina, which then transmits ...