About the Authors

Caroline Van Cauwenbergh

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Frauke Coppieters

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Dimitri Roels

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Sarah De Jaegere

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Helena Flipts

Affiliations Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

Julie De Zaeytijd

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Sophie Walraedt

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Charlotte Claes

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Antwerp, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

Erik Fransen

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Antwerp, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

Guy Van Camp

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Antwerp, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

Fanny Depasse

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hôpital Erasme-ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Ingele Casteels

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

Thomy de Ravel

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

Bart P. Leroy

Contributed equally to this work with: Bart P. Leroy, Elfride De Baere

Affiliations Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Division of Ophthalmology & Center for Cellular & Molecular Therapy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Elfride De Baere

Contributed equally to this work with: Bart P. Leroy, Elfride De Baere

Elfride.DeBaere@UGent.be

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CVC FC BPL EDB. Data curation: CVC. Formal analysis: CVC EF. Funding acquisition: EDB. Investigation: CVC SDJ HF CC EF. Methodology: CVC FC EF GVC BPL EDB. Project administration: CVC FC EDB. Resources: CVC FC DR JDZ SW GVC FD IC TDR BPL EDB. Software: CVC FC EF. Supervision: EDB. Validation: CVC HF SDJ. Visualization: CVC DR. Writing – original draft: CVC. Writing – review & editing: CVC FC BPL EDB.