About the Authors

Jasper H. Kappen

j.Kappen@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation Internal medicine, Section immunology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Carolina Medina-Gomez

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus M Medical Center C, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

P. Martin van Hagen

Affiliations Internal medicine, Section immunology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Lisette Stolk

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Karol Estrada

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Fernando Rivadeneira

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus M Medical Center C, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Andre G. Uitterlinden

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Miles R. Stanford

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Eldat Ben-Chetrit

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Graham R. Wallace

Affiliation Centre for Translational Inflammation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Merih Soylu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cukurova, School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey

Jan A.M. van Laar

Affiliations Internal medicine, Section immunology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHK CMG PMH LS FR AGU JAML. Performed the experiments: JHK LS KE GRW. Analyzed the data: JHK CMG FR KE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHK PMH MRS EBC MS JAML. Wrote the paper: JHK CMG PMH FR AGU GRW JAML. Supervision: FR AGU PMH JAML.