About the Authors

Peter Charbel Issa

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Charbel Issa, Samantha R. De Silva

Current address: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Samantha R. De Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Charbel Issa, Samantha R. De Silva

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Daniel M. Lipinski

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mandeep S. Singh

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alexandre Mouravlev

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Qisheng You

Current address: Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alun R. Barnard

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mark W. Hankins

Affiliation Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Matthew J. During

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Robert E. MacLaren

enquiries@eye.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom, Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MWH MJD REM. Performed the experiments: PCI SRDS DML MSS AM QY ARB. Analyzed the data: PCI SRDS DML MSS AM ARB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCI SRDS DML AM REM. Wrote the paper: PCI SRDS DML AM MJD REM.