About the Authors

Xueling Sim

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Rick Twee-Hee Ong

Affiliations Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

Chen Suo

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Wan-Ting Tay

Affiliation Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore

Jianjun Liu

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

Daniel Peng-Keat Ng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Michael Boehnke

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kee-Seng Chia

Affiliations Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Tien-Yin Wong

Affiliations Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Mark Seielstad

Current address: Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

Yik-Ying Teo

eshyong@pacific.net.sg (E-ST); statyy@nus.edu.sg (Y-YT)

Affiliations Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

E-Shyong Tai

eshyong@pacific.net.sg (E-ST); statyy@nus.edu.sg (Y-YT)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL DPKN MB KSC TYW MS EST. Performed the experiments: XS. Analyzed the data: XS RTO CS WTT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL DPKN TYW EST. Wrote the paper: XS YYT EST.