Investigating the modulation of genetic effects on late AMD by age and sex: Lessons learned and two additional loci

• 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0292-5421

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• 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

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• 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

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• Mathias Gorski,

  Roles Data curation

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

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• Klaus Stark,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-1942

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• Julika Loss,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Bernhard H. F. Weber,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8808-7723

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• Iris M. Heid ,

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

  * E-mail: iris.heid@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

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

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• 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.

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