About the Authors

Alex J. Bartholomew

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States of America

Eleonora M. Lad

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States of America

Dingcai Cao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States of America

Michael Bach

Affiliation Section Visual Function, Eye Center, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

Elizabeth T. Cirulli

etc3@duke.edu

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ETC AJB. Performed the experiments: AJB. Analyzed the data: ETC AJB MB EML DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB DC. Wrote the paper: ETC AJB MB EML DC.