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Both inheritance and visual experience contribute to the de of myopia. The blur hypothesis, which asserts that myopia may be iuduced by ahnormal levels of or sensitivity to retinal image blur, can be used to describe how nature may work together to induce myopia. Each physiological mechanism that in uceu blurred vision may be inherited and most of these can act as parallel causal links connecting near work with the mechanisms that translate a blurred image into axial myopia.
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Thorn, F., Grice, K., Held, R., Gwiazda, J. (2000). Myopia: Nature, Nurture, and the Blur Hypothesis. In: Lin, L.LK., Shih, YF., Hung, P.T. (eds) Myopia Updates II. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66917-3_24
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