About the Authors
- Moreno Menghini
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Contributed equally to this work with: Moreno Menghini, Barbara Kloeckener-Gruissem
* E-mail: moreno@menghini.biz
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Barbara Kloeckener-Gruissem
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Contributed equally to this work with: Moreno Menghini, Barbara Kloeckener-Gruissem
Affiliations Institute of Medical Molecular Genetics, University of Zurich, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland, ETH Zurich, Institute of Biology, Zurich, Switzerland
- Johannes Fleischhauer
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Malaika M. Kurz-Levin
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Florian K. P. Sutter
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Wolfgang Berger
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Affiliations Institute of Medical Molecular Genetics, University of Zurich, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland, Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Daniel Barthelmes
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Competing Interests
The authors only received a one-time unrestricted amount from Novartis in order to be able to finance the genotyping. The amount was solely spent for the process of genotyping and for acquisition of the blood samples. None of the money went directly to any of the authors or to any particular individual involved in the process of data aquisition (i.e. as salary). This was an unrestricted funding. Novartis does not expect data in return. All data will be available to the whole scientific community. 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: MM BKG WB DB. Performed the experiments: MM BKG WB DB JF MMKL. Analyzed the data: BKG MM DB JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WB BKG DB FS. Wrote the paper: MM BKG DB FS MMKL JF WB. Funding/administrative support: FS JF MMKL.