About the Authors

John Paul SanGiovanni

Contributed equally to this work with: John Paul SanGiovanni, Przemyslaw Sapieha, Phil H. Lee

jpsangio@post.harvard.edu

Affiliation National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Section on Nutritional Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Jing Chen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Ankur S. Gupta

Affiliation University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Lois E. H. Smith

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Przemyslaw Sapieha

Contributed equally to this work with: John Paul SanGiovanni, Przemyslaw Sapieha, Phil H. Lee

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Phil H. Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: John Paul SanGiovanni, Przemyslaw Sapieha, Phil H. Lee

Affiliation Analytic & Translational Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Jing Chen is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPSG PS PHL LEHS. Performed the experiments: PHL JPSG. Analyzed the data: PHL JPSG ASG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPSG PHL. Wrote the paper: JPSG PS PHL JC LEHS ASG.