About the Authors

Thomas W. Winkler

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas W. Winkler, Caroline Brandl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Caroline Brandl

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas W. Winkler, Caroline Brandl

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Felix Grassmann

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Mathias Gorski

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Klaus Stark

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Julika Loss

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Sociology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Bernhard H. F. Weber

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Iris M. Heid

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

iris.heid@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

for the International Age-related Macular Degeneration Genomics Consortium (IAMDGC)

Membership of the International Age-related Macular Degeneration Genomics Consortium (IAMDGC) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.