About the Authors

Michael W. Marcus

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Rogier P. H. M. Müskens

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Wishal D. Ramdas

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Roger C. W. Wolfs

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Paulus T. V. M. De Jong

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmogenetics, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Johannes R. Vingerling

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Albert Hofman

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bruno H. Stricker

b.stricker@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Nomdo M. Jansonius

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

This study was partly funded by the following companies: Laméris Ootech BV, Medical Workshop, Topcon Europe BV and Heidelberg Engineering. The funding was unrestricted and did not, in any way, interfere with the conception and/or design and/or outcome and/or publication of the study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMJ RPHMM JRV AH PTVMdJ BHS. Performed the experiments: WDR RCWW JRV. Analyzed the data: MWM WDR. Wrote the paper: MWM RPHMM WDR RCWW PTVMdJ JRV AH BHS NMJ.