About the Authors

Ramakrishna P. Alur

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Camasamudram Vijayasarathy

Affiliation Section for Translational Research in Retinal and Macular Degeneration, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jacob D. Brown

Affiliations Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Mohit Mehtani

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ighovie F. Onojafe

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuri V. Sergeev

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elangovan Boobalan

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

MaryPat Jones

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ke Tang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Haiquan Liu

Affiliation School of Optometry and Vision Science Program, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Chun-hong Xia

Affiliation School of Optometry and Vision Science Program, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Xiaohua Gong

Affiliation School of Optometry and Vision Science Program, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Brian P. Brooks

brooksb@mail.nih.gov

Affiliations Section for Translational Research in Retinal and Macular Degeneration, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPA CV JDB EB BPB. Performed the experiments: RPA CV JDB MM IFO YVS EB MJ KT HL ChX XG BPB. Analyzed the data: RPA YVS EB MJ BPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV MJ XG BPB. Wrote the paper: JDB MM YVS XG BPB.