The Evidence on Teaching

Myopia is predominantly genetic or predominantly environmental?

Verhoeven VJM, Morgan IG, Guggenheim JA · 2025

grade Dreviewindependentnot-applicable
Sample
not established
Population
not established
Design
Directly on-point debate piece in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics by three of the leading figures on both sides of the myopia heritability question (Verhoeven from the CREAM GWAS consortium, Morgan from the Guangzhou and Shanghai outdoor trials, Guggenheim from the Mendelian randomisation work). ACCESS FAILURE: no abstract is deposited with either Europe PMC or Crossref for DOI 10.1111/opo.13464, and no open-access full text was located, so the substance of the argument could not be read. Only title, authorship, journal and year were obtained.
Key findings
Not read. The title indicates it addresses exactly the genetic-versus-environmental framing this topic turns on; it should be obtained in full at the adversarial-review pass, since it is the most likely source of a serious challenge to the hereditarian-lens section here.
Genetic confound
Unknown - unread.

Effects

OutcomeMetricValueMeasureTimingVsHorizonClass
not extractednot extractednot extractedunknownn/anonenot-applicableunclear
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