Non-allergic eye rubbing is a major behavioral risk factor for keratoconus

• Katarzyna Jaskiewicz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katarzyna Jaskiewicz, Magdalena Maleszka-Kurpiel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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• Magdalena Maleszka-Kurpiel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katarzyna Jaskiewicz, Magdalena Maleszka-Kurpiel

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Optegra Eye Health Care Clinic in Poznan, Poznan, Poland, Chair of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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• Andrzej Michalski,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Chair of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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• Rafal Ploski,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6286-5526

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• Malgorzata Rydzanicz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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• Marzena Gajecka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gamar@man.poznan.pl

  Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, Chair and Department of Genetics and Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7468-2604

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