About the Authors
- Jung Hyun Park
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jung Hyun Park, Seungbok Lee
Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Paik Hospital, Inje University, Seoul, Korea
- Seungbok Lee
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jung Hyun Park, Seungbok Lee
Affiliations Genomic Medicine Institute (GMI), Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea
- Hyeong Gon Yu
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* E-mail: hgonyu@snu.ac.kr (HGY); jongil@snu.ac.kr (JIK)
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Jong-Il Kim
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* E-mail: hgonyu@snu.ac.kr (HGY); jongil@snu.ac.kr (JIK)
Affiliations Genomic Medicine Institute (GMI), Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea, Department of Biochemistry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Psoma Therapeutics, Seoul, Korea
- Jeong-Sun Seo
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Affiliations Genomic Medicine Institute (GMI), Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea, Department of Biochemistry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Psoma Therapeutics, Seoul, Korea, Macrogen, Seoul, Korea
Competing Interests
Jeong-Sun Seo is a PLoS ONE Editorial Board member. Jongil Kim and Jeong-Sun Seo are consulting for Macrogen and Psoma Therapeutics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JK HGY JSS. Performed the experiments: SL. Analyzed the data: JHP SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK JSS. Wrote the paper: JHP SL. Planned and coordinated the recruitment and clinical classification of age-related macular degeneration patients: HGY. Collected DNA samples: JHP.