About the Authors

Cécile Méjécase

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

Caroline Laurent-Coriat

Affiliation CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, DHU Sight Restore, INSERM-DHOS CIC1423, Paris, France

Claudine Mayer

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, UMR 3528, Paris, France, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Olivier Poch

Affiliation Université de Strasbourg CNRS-Icube, UMR 7357, LBGI, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France

Saddek Mohand-Saïd

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France, CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, DHU Sight Restore, INSERM-DHOS CIC1423, Paris, France

Camille Prévot

Affiliations CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, DHU Sight Restore, INSERM-DHOS CIC1423, Paris, France, Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris, France

Aline Antonio

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France, CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, DHU Sight Restore, INSERM-DHOS CIC1423, Paris, France

Fiona Boyard

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

Christel Condroyer

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

Christelle Michiels

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

Steven Blanchard

Affiliation IntegraGen SA, Genopole, Campus, Evry, Paris, France

Mélanie Letexier

Affiliation IntegraGen SA, Genopole, Campus, Evry, Paris, France

Jean-Paul Saraiva

Affiliation IntegraGen SA, Genopole, Campus, Evry, Paris, France

José-Alain Sahel

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France, CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, DHU Sight Restore, INSERM-DHOS CIC1423, Paris, France, Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris, France, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College of London, London, United Kingdom, Academie des Sciences, Institut de France, Paris, France

Isabelle Audo

Contributed equally to this work with: Isabelle Audo, Christina Zeitz

Isabelle.audo@inserm.fr (IA); Christina.zeitz@inserm.fr (CZ)

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France, CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, DHU Sight Restore, INSERM-DHOS CIC1423, Paris, France, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College of London, London, United Kingdom

Christina Zeitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Isabelle Audo, Christina Zeitz

Isabelle.audo@inserm.fr (IA); Christina.zeitz@inserm.fr (CZ)

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The commercial affiliation (IntegraGen SA, Genopole, Campus, Evry, Paris, France) does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IA CZ. Data curation: SB ML JPS. Formal analysis: SB ML JPS. Funding acquisition: IA CZ C. Méjécase JAS. Investigation: C. Méjécase CLC AA FB CC C. Michiels SMS CP SB ML JPS. Methodology: IA CZ SB ML C. Méjécase OP C. Mayer. Project administration: IA CZ. Resources: IA CZ JAS. Software: SB ML C. Méjécase IA CZ OP C. Mayer. Supervision: IA CZ JAS OP C. Mayer. Validation: C. Méjécase AA FB CC C. Michiels IA CZ OP C. Mayer CLC SMS. Visualization: C. Méjécase C. Mayer. Writing – original draft: C. Méjécase. Writing – review & editing: C. Méjécase IA CZ C. Mayer OP.