About the Authors

Kristy R. Crooks

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristy R. Crooks, R. Rand Allingham

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

R. Rand Allingham

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristy R. Crooks, R. Rand Allingham

Affiliations Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Xuejun Qin

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yutao Liu

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason R. Gibson

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Cecilia Santiago-Turla

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Karen R. Larocque-Abramson

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Elizabeth Del Bono

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pratap Challa

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Leon W. Herndon

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen Akafo

Affiliation Unit of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Janey L. Wiggs

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Silke Schmidt

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael A. Hauser

mike.hauser@duke.edu

Affiliations Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAH SS RRA JRG. Performed the experiments: KRL-A YL JRG. Analyzed the data: XQ SS JRG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLW PC LWH SA CS-T EDB JRG. Wrote the paper: KRC RRA MAH SS JRG.