About the Authors
- Manzar Ashtari
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* E-mail: ashtari@email.chop.edu
Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Laura Cyckowski
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Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Alborz Yazdi
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Current address: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Amanda Viands
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Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Kathleen Marshall
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Affiliation Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- István Bókkon
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Affiliation Vision Research Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Albert Maguire
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Affiliations Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Ophthalmology Department, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Jean Bennett
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Affiliations Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
JB, AM, WH, GA, GA, “Method of treating or retarding the development of blindness, United States Patent (Approved April 2012) 2002: JB & AMM waived any potential financial gain. Also, JB is on the scientific advisory board of Avalanche Biotechnologies, Inc. and a founder of GenSight Biologics. 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: MA JB IB. Performed the experiments: MA LC KM JB AM. Analyzed the data: MA LC AV AY KM JB AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA JB KM AM AY IB. Wrote the paper: MA JB IB AY.