About the Authors

Federico Ricci

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Ricci, Giovanni Staurenghi

Affiliation UOSD Patologia retinica Fondazione PTV “Policlinico Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Staurenghi

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Ricci, Giovanni Staurenghi

Affiliation Eye Clinic, Department of Clinical Science “Luigi Sacco”, Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Tiziana Lepre

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Filippo Missiroli

Affiliation UOSD Patologia retinica Fondazione PTV “Policlinico Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Stefania Zampatti

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Raffaella Cascella

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Paola Borgiani

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Luigi Tonino Marsella

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Chiara Maria Eandi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Physiopathology, Eye Clinic, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

Andrea Cusumano

Affiliation UOSD Patologia retinica Fondazione PTV “Policlinico Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Novelli

Affiliations National Agency of Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR), Rome, Italy, S. Pietro Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Rome, Italy

Emiliano Giardina

emiliano.giardina@uniroma2.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FR GS EG GN. Performed the experiments: TL SZ RC. Analyzed the data: PB EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM LTM CME AC FR GS. Wrote the paper: FR GS EG. Phenotyping of patients: FM CME AC FR GS.