https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-8895
About the Authors
- Gianni Virgili
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department Neurofarba, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, IRCCS–Fondazione Bietti, Rome, Italy
- Eliana Costanzo
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Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: eliana.costanzo@fondazionebietti.it
Affiliation IRCCS–Fondazione Bietti, Rome, Italy
- Ilaria Biagini
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Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department Neurofarba, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Mariacristina Parravano
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation IRCCS–Fondazione Bietti, Rome, Italy
- Alessia Di Simone
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti Onlus-Sezione Territoriale di Enna, Enna, Italy
- Filippo Amore
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Roles Investigation
Affiliations National Centre of Services and Research for the Prevention of Blindness and Rehabilitation of Visually Impaired, IAPB- Italia Onlus, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy
- Mauro Tettamanti
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy
- Simona Di Pietro
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
- Giovanni L. Ciaffoni
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Roles Data curation, Software
Affiliation Istituto dei Ciechi F. Cavazza, Bologna, Italy
- Giovanni Sato
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Roles Data curation, Investigation
Affiliation Centro Oculistico S. Paolo Hospital, S. Antonio Padova, Padova, Italy
- Giovanni Giacomelli
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department Neurofarba, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Federico Bartolomei
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation
Affiliation Istituto dei Ciechi F. Cavazza, Bologna, Italy
Competing Interests
Gianni Virgili, Eliana Costanzo, Ilaria Biagini, Alessia Di Simone, Filippo Amore, Mauro Tettamanti, Simona Di Pietro, Giovanni L. Ciaffoni, Giovanni Sato, Giovanni Giacomelli, Federico Bartolomei have nothing to disclose. Mariacristina Parravano reports personal fees from Novartis, Bayer, La-Roche, Abbvie outside the submitted work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.