About the Authors

Phillippa M. Cumberland

Contributed equally to this work with: Phillippa M. Cumberland, Jugnoo S. Rahi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Ulverscroft Foundation, Leicester, United Kingdom

Vasiliki Bountziouka

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Ulverscroft Foundation, Leicester, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Hammond

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom

Pirro G. Hysi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom

Jugnoo S. Rahi

Contributed equally to this work with: Phillippa M. Cumberland, Jugnoo S. Rahi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

j.rahi@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Ulverscroft Foundation, Leicester, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

on behalf of the UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium

Membership of the UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium is provided on their website: https://www.ukbiobankeyeconsortium.org.uk/people.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.