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Concordance of strabismic phenotypes in monozygotic versus multizygotic twins and other multiple births.
Japanese journal of ophthalmology - 1 Jan 2000
Matsuo Toshihiko, Hayashi Mizue, Fujiwara Hirotake, Yamane Takashi, Ohtsuki Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The concordance of strabismic phenotypes was examined in monozygotic versus multizygotic twins and other multiple births to study the role of genetic background in different types of commitant strabismus. METHODS: Medical charts of 45 consecutive pairs of twins (16 monozygotic and 18 dizygotic twins, and 11 with unknown zygosity), 3 sets of triplets (one monozygotic and 2 trizygotic triplets), and one...
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