About the Authors

Salvador Pastor-Idoate

Affiliations Instituto de Oftalmobiología (IOBA-Retina Group), University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, Unidad de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Medicina, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Irene Rodríguez-Hernández

Affiliations Unidad de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Medicina, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer (IBMCC), University of Salamanca–CSIC-SACYL, Salamanca, Spain

Jimena Rojas

Affiliation Instituto de Oftalmobiología (IOBA-Retina Group), University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Itziar Fernández

Affiliation Instituto de Oftalmobiología (IOBA-Retina Group), University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

María T. García-Gutiérrez

Affiliation Instituto de Oftalmobiología (IOBA-Retina Group), University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

José M. Ruiz-Moreno

Affiliation University of Castilla La Mancha, Vissum, Albacete, Spain

Amandio Rocha-Sousa

Affiliation Department of Sense Organs, Medical School, University of Porto, Hospital San João, Porto, Portugal

Yashin Ramkissoon

Affiliation Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Steven Harsum

Affiliation Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Robert E. MacLaren

Affiliations Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, United Kingdom

David Charteris

Affiliation Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

Jan C. VanMeurs

Affiliation Rotterdam Eye Hospital, Erasmus Medical Center, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Rogelio González-Sarmiento

gonzalez@usal.es (RGS); pastor@ioba.med.uva.es (JCP)

Affiliations Unidad de Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Medicina, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer (IBMCC), University of Salamanca–CSIC-SACYL, Salamanca, Spain

José C. Pastor

gonzalez@usal.es (RGS); pastor@ioba.med.uva.es (JCP)

Affiliation Instituto de Oftalmobiología (IOBA-Retina Group), University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

on behalf of the Genetics on PVR Study Group

Membership of the Genetics on PVR Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPI IRH JR RGS JCP. Performed the experiments: SPI IRH. Analyzed the data: SPI IF RGS JCP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RGS JCP. Wrote the paper: SPI JR RGS JCP. Sample collection and updating patient information: MTGG JMRM ARS YR SH REM DC JCV.