Myopia and colour vision: potential impact of colour vision gene variation on susceptibility to myopia

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1030148

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The frequency of myopia has shown a rapid increase in recent years but the underlying cause remains largely unknown. Our recent work on severe myopia with dichromacy has indicated that some forms of myopia may arise through changes in cone visual pigments and the arrangement of cone photoreceptors in the retina which impact on the feedback loop between image formation and eye elongation. This study seeks to explore this link in detail in myopia patients that possess normal colour vision.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $227,947.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ophthalmology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

colour vision | emmetropisation | myopia | refractive error development | vision loss

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