Research Article
Familial Aggregation and Heritability of Myopia: A Local Population Survey in Shanxi, China
Table 2
The effect of first-degree relatives’ refractive status on each subgroup.
| | | No myopia
(N, %) | Mild myopia
(N, %) | Moderate myopia
(N, %) | High myopia
(N, %) | In total
(N, %) |
| | Fathers | 1503 (84.39%) | 150 (8.42%) | 104 (5.84%) | 24 (1.34%) | 1781 (100%) | | Mothers | 1428 (79.73%) | 199 (11.11%) | 123 (6.87%) | 41 (2.29%) | 1791 (100%) | | Siblings | 494 (72.43%) | 110 (16.14%) | 61 (8.94%) | 17 (2.49%) | 682 (100%) | | Students | 647 (35.69%) | 721 (39.77%) | 363 (20.02%) | 82 (4.52%) | 1813 (100%) |
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N = number of participants; % = N in each subgroup/the total N in each category.
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