About the Authors

Rosie Clark

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors jointly contributed to the research.

Affiliation School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Alfred Pozarickij

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

‡ These authors jointly contributed to the research.

Affiliation School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Pirro G. Hysi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Section of Ophthalmology, School of Life Course Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, School of Life Course Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Kyoko Ohno-Matsui

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Cathy Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Academic Child Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jeremy A. Guggenheim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

guggenheimj1@cardiff.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.