Spink2 Modulates Apoptotic Susceptibility and Is a Candidate Gene in the Rgcs1 QTL That Affects Retinal Ganglion Cell Death after Optic Nerve Damage

• Joel A. Dietz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joel A. Dietz, Margaret E. Maes

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Margaret E. Maes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joel A. Dietz, Margaret E. Maes

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Shuang Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Brian S. Yandell,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Cassandra L. Schlamp,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Angela D. Montgomery,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• R. Rand Allingham,

  Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Michael A. Hauser,

  Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Robert W. Nickells

  * E-mail: nickells@wisc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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