Family aggregation of high myopia: estimation of the sibling recurrence risk ratio.

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  • Jane E Farbrother
  • George Kirov
  • Michael J Owen
  • Jeremy A Guggenheim
چکیده

PURPOSE To estimate the sibling recurrence risk (KS) and the sibling recurrence risk ratio (lambda(S)) for high myopia in a cohort in the United Kingdom. METHOD The recurrence risks for myopia and high myopia were estimated in the siblings of 296 randomly selected high myopes ascertained from an optometric practice population. A model using an age of onset of spectacle wear for myopia of 9.1 +/- 0.7 years or younger was developed as a surrogate for high myopia. The influence of parental myopia on the sibling recurrence risk for high myopia was also evaluated. RESULTS KS was estimated (95% confidence limits) to be 10.0% (5.9, 14.8) and lambdaS to be 4.9 (2.8, 7.6). High myopes without myopic parents were surprisingly common ( approximately 40%) and were less likely to have highly myopic siblings (KS approximately 6%) than those with at least one myopic parent (KS approximately 14%). CONCLUSIONS The sibling recurrence risk ratio reported herein (lambdaS approximately 4.9) implies that the high penetrance autosomal dominant loci for high myopia identified to date account for only a minority of cases of high myopia in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, high-penetrance autosomal dominant inheritance or even high-penetrance recessive inheritance, per se, cannot account for most cases of high myopia. Instead, it may be necessary to consider high myopia as a "complex disease" resulting from the influence of either alleles of reduced penetrance ("susceptibility genes"), environmental factors, or both.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

دوره 45 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004