About the Authors

Megan Ulmer Carnes

Contributed equally to this work with: Megan Ulmer Carnes, Yangfan P. Liu

Affiliation The Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yangfan P. Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Megan Ulmer Carnes, Yangfan P. Liu

Affiliation The Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

R. Rand Allingham

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Benjamin T. Whigham

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Shane Havens

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Melanie E. Garrett

Affiliation The Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Chunyan Qiao

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium Investigators

‡ Membership of NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium Investigators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Nicholas Katsanis

Affiliation The Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Janey L. Wiggs

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Louis R. Pasquale

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Allison Ashley-Koch

Affiliations The Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Edwin C. Oh

ECO and MAH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations The Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael A. Hauser

mike.hauser@duke.edu

ECO and MAH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations The Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MUC YPL RRA BTW AAK ECO MAH. Performed the experiments: MUC YPL BTW SH CQ. Analyzed the data: MUC YPL MEG ECO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRA NK JLW LRP ECO MAH. Wrote the paper: MUC MAH ECO.