About the Authors
- Andrew Orr
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Marie-Pierre Dubé
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Affiliation Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Julien Marcadier
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Haiyan Jiang
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Antonio Federico
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e del Comportamento, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy
- Stanley George
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Christopher Seamone
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- David Andrews
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Paul Dubord
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Simon Holland
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Sylvie Provost
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Affiliation Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Vanessa Mongrain
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Susan Evans
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Brent Higgins
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Affiliation Genome Atlantic, National Research Council of Canada Institute of Marine Biology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Sharen Bowman
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Affiliation Genome Atlantic, National Research Council of Canada Institute of Marine Biology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Duane Guernsey
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Mark Samuels
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mark.e.samuels@umontreal.ca
Current address: Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Affiliations Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AO. Performed the experiments: JM VM SE BH SB DG. Analyzed the data: MS AO MD JM HJ SP VM SE BH DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO AF SG CS DA PD SH. Wrote the paper: MS AO MD DG. Other: Supervised molecular genetics experiments: DG SB. Senior clinical investigator: AC. Senior investigator overseeing all molecular genetic aspects of project: MS.