Frequency and distribution of corneal astigmatism and keratometry features in adult life: Methodology and findings of the UK Biobank study

Nikolas Pontikos; Sharon Chua; Paul J. Foster; Stephen J. Tuft; Alexander C. Day; UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218144

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Frequency and distribution of corneal astigmatism and keratometry features in adult life: Methodology and findings of the UK Biobank study

Nikolas Pontikos ,

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

* E-mail: n.pontikos@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, England, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1782-4711

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Sharon Chua,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, England, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom
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Paul J. Foster,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, England, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom
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Stephen J. Tuft,

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

Affiliations UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, England, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom
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Alexander C. Day,

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

Affiliations UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, England, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom
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UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium

¶Collaborators on behalf of the UK Biobank listed in the acknowledgments.
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Frequency and distribution of corneal astigmatism and keratometry features in adult life: Methodology and findings of the UK Biobank study

Nikolas Pontikos,
Sharon Chua,
Paul J. Foster,
Stephen J. Tuft,
Alexander C. Day,
UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium

Published: September 19, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218144

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