The Genetics of Strabismus
The Genetics of Strabismus
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DOI:
10.3368/aoj.51.1.67
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发表时间:
2001-01
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E. Traboulsi
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E. Traboulsi
Early in his practice, Dr. John PrattJohnson realized the importance of genetic determinants of strabismus and advocated the prompt detection of strabismus in individuals with a family history of ocular misalignment.1 Although a genetic component to strabismus had been suspected since ancient Greek times because of its familial aggregation, it was not until 1923 that Claude Worth postulated that “a defect in the fusion faculty is the essential cause of squint and is the inherited factor. . .”.2 He continued to state that “. . . in the presence of this fundamental cause, the eyes are in a state of unstable equilibrium to squint either inwards or outwards on slight provocation.” This last theory remains to be proven. It is however clear that inherited anatomical, innervational and/or fusional defects have to underlie all forms of familial and probably isolated cases of strabismus. A large number of