About the Authors

Ryan Chao

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Linda Nevin

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Pooja Agarwal

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jan Riemer

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Xiaoyang Bai

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology, Anatomy and the Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Allen Delaney

Affiliation Genome Sciences Center, BC Cancer Research Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Matthew Akana

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nelson JimenezLopez

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tanya Bardakjian

Affiliation Clinical Genetics Division, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Adele Schneider

Affiliation Clinical Genetics Division, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicolas Chassaing

Affiliation Service de Génétique Médicale, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Daniel F. Schorderet

Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie, University of Lausanne and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

David FitzPatrick

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Pui-yan Kwok

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lars Ellgaard

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Douglas B. Gould

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology, Anatomy and the Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jarema Malicki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Herwig Baier

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Anne Slavotinek

slavotia@peds.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LN JR LE JM HB AS. Performed the experiments: RC JR MA NJ LE YZ AS. Analyzed the data: RC LN JR XB AD LE DG YZ JM HB AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LN PA JR XB TB AS NC DFS DRF PYK LE DG YZ JM HB. Wrote the paper: LN NC DFS DG JM HB AS.