About the Authors

Xunda Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Xunda Luo, Artur V. Cideciyan

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Artur V. Cideciyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xunda Luo, Artur V. Cideciyan

jacobsos@mail.med.upenn.edu (SGJ); cideciya@mail.med.upenn.edu (AVC)

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alessandro Iannaccone

Affiliation Hamilton Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Alejandro J. Roman

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lauren C. Ditta

Affiliation Hamilton Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Barbara J. Jennings

Affiliation Hamilton Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Svetlana A. Yatsenko

Affiliation Pittsburgh Cytogenetics Laboratory, Center for Medical Genetics and Genomics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rebecca Sheplock

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alexander Sumaroka

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Malgorzata Swider

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sharon B. Schwartz

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bernd Wissinger

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Susanne Kohl

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Samuel G. Jacobson

jacobsos@mail.med.upenn.edu (SGJ); cideciya@mail.med.upenn.edu (AVC)

Affiliation Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGJ AVC AI BW SK. Performed the experiments: AVC XL AJR LCD BJJ SAY RS AS MS SBS. Analyzed the data: AVC XL AJR LCD BJJ SAY RS AS MS SBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS AJR. Wrote the paper: SGJ AVC.