About the Authors

Mary Anna Carbone

Affiliations Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Yuhong Chen

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Eye and ENT Hospital, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Guy A. Hughes

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Robert N. Weinreb

Affiliation Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Norman A. Zabriskie

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Moran Eye Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kang Zhang

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Molecular Medicine Research Center and Department of Ophthalmology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China

Robert R. H. Anholt

anholt@ncsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAC RRHA. Performed the experiments: MAC YC KZ. Analyzed the data: MAC YC KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RNW NAZ GAH KZ. Wrote the paper: MAC RRHA KZ.