About the Authors
- Ji-jing Pang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-jing Pang, Wen-Tao Deng
* E-mail: jpang@ufl.edu
Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Eye Hospital, School of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China
- Wen-Tao Deng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-jing Pang, Wen-Tao Deng
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Xufeng Dai
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Eye Hospital, School of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China
- Bo Lei
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Affiliation Chongqing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Drew Everhart
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Affiliation Ophthalmology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America
- Yumiko Umino
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Affiliation Ophthalmology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America
- Jie Li
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Keqing Zhang
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Affiliation Chongqing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Song Mao
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Sanford L. Boye
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Li Liu
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Vince A. Chiodo
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Xuan Liu
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Wei Shi
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Ye Tao
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Bo Chang
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Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America
- William W. Hauswirth
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
WWH and the University of Florida have a financial interest in the use of AAV therapies, and own equity in a company (AGTC Inc.) that might, in the future, commercialize some aspects of this work. Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., is a non-commercial company and 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: JP WWH. Performed the experiments: JP WTD XD BL DE YU JL KZ SM SLB LL VAC XL WS. Analyzed the data: JP BL DE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC WTD YT. Wrote the paper: JP WTD. Revision: JP WTD WWH.