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. 2022 Mar 9;9(3):382. doi: 10.3390/children9030382

Table 1.

Gene loci identified for myopia from linkage analysis and sequencing studies.

Locus Location Gene Inheritance Ethnicity Reference
MYP1 Xq28 OPN1LW, OPN1MW X-linked Danish Schwartz et al., 1990 [32]
MYP2 18p11.31 n.r. AD Chinese and European Young 1998, Young 2001 [33,34]
MYP3 12q21-q23 n.r. AD German/Italian Young 1998 [35]
MYP5 17q21-q22 n.r. AD English/Canadian Paluru et al., 2003 [36]
MYP6 22q13.33 SCO2 AD Ashkenazi Jewish Stambolian et al., 2004 [37]
MYP7 11p13 n.r. Multifactorial Caucasian Hammond et al., 2004 [38]
MYP8 3q26 n.r. Multifactorial Caucasian Hammond et al., 2004 [38]
MYP9 4q12 n.r. Multifactorial Caucasian Hammond et al., 2004 [38]
MYP10 8p23 n.r. Multifactorial Caucasian Hammond et al., 2004 [38]
MYP11 4q22-q27 n.r. AD Chinese Zhang et al., 2005 [39]
MYP12 2q37.1 n.r. AD Northern European Paluru et al., 2005 [40]
MYP13 Xq23-q27.2 n.r. X-linked Chinese Zhang et al., 2006 [41]
MYP14 1q36 n.r. n.r. Ashkenazi Jewish Wojciechowski et al., 2006 [42]
MYP15 10q21.1 n.r. AD Caucasian Nallasamy et al., 2007 [43]
MYP16 5p15.33-p15.2 n.r. AD Chinese Lam et al., 2008 [24]
MYP17 7p15 n.r. AD French and Algerian Paget et al., 2008 [44]
MYP18 14q22.1-q24.2 n.r. AR Chinese Yang et al., 2009 [45]
MYP19 5p13.3-p15.1 n.r. AD Chinese Ma et al., 2010 [46]
MYP20 13q12.12 n.r. AD Chinese Shi et al., 2011 [47]
MYP21 1p22.2 ZNF644 AD Chinese, Caucasian and African American Shi et al., 2011 Tran-Viet et al., 2012 [48,49]
MYP22 4q35.1 CCDC111 AD Chinese Zhao et al. 2013 [50]
MYP23 4p16.3 LRPAP1 AR Saudi Arabian and Chinese Aldahmesh et al. 2013 Jiang et al. 2015 [51,52]
MYP24 12q13.3 SLC39A5 AD Chinese Guo et al., 2014 [53]
MYP25 5q31.1 P4HA2 AD Chinese Guo et al., 2015 [54]
MYP26 Xq13.1 ARR3 X-linked Chinese Xiao et al., 2016 [55]
MYP27 8q24.3 CPSF1 AD Chinese Ouyang et al., 2019 [56]

* MYP4 was merged into MYP17. AD = autosomal dominant; AR = autosomal recessive; n.r. = not reported.