About the Authors
- Andrei V. Tkatchenko
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrei V. Tkatchenko, Tatiana V. Tkatchenko, Jeremy A. Guggenheim
* E-mail: avt2130@cumc.columbia.edu
Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Tatiana V. Tkatchenko
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrei V. Tkatchenko, Tatiana V. Tkatchenko, Jeremy A. Guggenheim
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Jeremy A. Guggenheim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrei V. Tkatchenko, Tatiana V. Tkatchenko, Jeremy A. Guggenheim
Affiliation School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Virginie J. M. Verhoeven
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Pirro G. Hysi
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Robert Wojciechowski
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Pawan Kumar Singh
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Ashok Kumar
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Gopal Thinakaran
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Affiliation Departments of Neurobiology, Neurology, and Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM)
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¶A full list of CREAM members and their affiliations appears in the Supporting Information.
- Cathy Williams
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Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AVT TVT JAG PGH CW. Performed the experiments: AVT TVT JAG VJMV PGH PKS AK CW. Analyzed the data: AVT TVT JAG VJMV PGH RW CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GT. Wrote the paper: AVT TVT JAG VJMV PGH RW PKS AK GT CW.