Heritability estimates for myopia from family studies
| Study | Heritability | Relationship | Sample No | Comments | ||
| Sorsbyet al 45 | h2 = 0.45 | Parent-offspring | 28 families | UK population | ||
| h2 = 0.49 | Midparent-offspring | 106 subjects | ||||
| h2 = 0.72 | Sib-sib | |||||
| Nakajimaet al 46 | h2 = 0.16 | Parent-offspring | 162 pairs of subjects | |||
| h2= 0.42 | Parent-offspring | 35 pairs of subjects | Subset chosen as having been “measured more accurately” | |||
| Younget al 13 | h2 = 0.10 | Parent-offspring | 197 subjects | Eskimo population. Environment related shift in myopia prevalence with age. Only analysed a subset of population | ||
| h2 = 0.98 | Sib-sib | |||||
| Young and Leary14 | h2= 0.46 | Midparent-offspring | 1083 subjects | Eskimo population. Environment related shift in myopia prevalence with age | ||
| Keller47 | h2 = 0.37 | Parent-offspring | 289 pairs of subjects | US population | ||
| Hegmann et al 48 | h2 = 0.24 | Midparent-offspring | 163 families | US population. Randomly selected families | ||
| 866 subjects | ||||||
| Alsbirk15 | h2 = 0.14 | Parent-offspring | 483 subjects | Eskimo population. Environment related shift in myopia prevalence with age | ||
| h2 = 0.04 | Midparent-offspring | |||||
| h2= 0.50 | Sib-sib | |||||
| Johnson et al 49 | h2 = -0.03 | Parent-offspring | 76 families | Mixed Eskimo and white population. Environment related shift in myopia prevalence with age. Only analysed a subset of population | ||
| Ashton36 | h2 = 0.49 | Midparent-offspring | 377 families | Significant shift in refraction with age | ||
| h2 = 0.74 | Sib-sib | |||||
h2 = heritability, US = United States, UK = United Kingdom.