About the Authors

Myriam Mirza

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Cornelia Volz

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Marcus Karlstetter

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Monica Langiu

Affiliation Center for Membrane Proteomics, University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Aleksandra Somogyi

Affiliation Center for Membrane Proteomics, University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Mika O. Ruonala

Affiliation Center for Membrane Proteomics, University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ernst R. Tamm

Affiliation Institute of Human Anatomy and Embryology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Herbert Jägle

Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Jägle, Thomas Langmann

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thomas Langmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Jägle, Thomas Langmann

thomas.langmann@uk-koeln.de

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM HJ TL. Performed the experiments: MM CV MK ML AS MR. Analyzed the data: MM MR ET HJ TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ET. Wrote the paper: MM HJ TL.