Gene Changes Driving Myopia Reveal New Focus for Drug Development (IMAGE)

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Gene Changes Driving Myopia Reveal New Focus for Drug Development

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This image shows the effect of negative (green) and positive (red) lenses on eye growth and the heatmap depicting clusters of genes differentially expressed in the retina in response to optical defocus.

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Andrei V. Tkatchenko

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