About the Authors

Douglas Vollrath

vollrath@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Douglas Yasumura

Affiliation Beckman Vision Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gillie Benchorin

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Michael T. Matthes

Affiliation Beckman Vision Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wei Feng

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Natalie M. Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Cecilia D. Sedano

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Melissa A. Calton

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Matthew M. LaVail

Affiliation Beckman Vision Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DV MML MAC. Performed the experiments: DY WF MTM GB NMN CDS MAC MML. Analyzed the data: DV DY WF MTM GB NMN CDS MAC MML. Wrote the paper: DV WF GB MAC MML.