Visual acuity is not correlated with hearing threshold in childhood, suggesting independence of the two sensory phenotypes¶
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q3 i0 No evidence for a correlation between visual acuity and hearing threshold after adjusting for sex and age (r = −0.02, p = 0.104). → Schmitz 2023
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Schmitz 2023¶
Schmitz, J., Abbondanza, F., Marianski, K., Luciano, M. & Paracchini, S. (2023). Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment. npj Science of Learning, 8:25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00175-w
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Bivariate partial Pearson correlation in the ALSPAC sample overlapping the authors' previous hearing study. The analysis found no evidence for a correlation between visual acuity and hearing threshold (r = −0.02), suggesting independence of hearing and vision phenotypes.
"Partial Pearson correlation analysis adjusting for sex and age did not reveal evidence for a correlation between visual acuity and hearing threshold ( r(4927) = −0.02, 95% CI = [−0.05, −0.005], p = 0.104)"
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Related Claims¶
- Better childhood visual acuity is associated with higher GCSE scores even after adjusting for sex, age, reading skill, verbal and performance IQ, and SES — related
- GWAS identifies genome-wide significant association of childhood visual acuity at the NPLOC4 locus on chromosome 17 — related
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Visual acuity is not correlated with hearing threshold in childhood, suggesting independence of the two sensory phenotypes |
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Visual acuity is not correlated with hearing threshold in childhood, suggesting independence of the two sensory phenotypes |
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