About the Authors
- Periasamy Sundaresan
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dr. G. Venkataswamy Eye Research Institute, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Ravilla D. Ravindran
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Affiliation Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India
- Praveen Vashist
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Affiliation Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
- Ashwini Shanker
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dr. G. Venkataswamy Eye Research Institute, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Dorothea Nitsch
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Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Badrinath Talwar
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Affiliation Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India
- Giovanni Maraini
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Otorino-Odonto-Oftalmologiche e Cervico Facciali, Sezione di Oftalmologia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
- Monica Camparini
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Otorino-Odonto-Oftalmologiche e Cervico Facciali, Sezione di Oftalmologia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
- Bareng Aletta S. Nonyane
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Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Liam Smeeth
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Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Usha Chakravarthy
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
- James F. Hejtmancik
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Affiliation Section on Ophthalmic Molecular Genetics, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Astrid E. Fletcher
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* E-mail: astrid.fletcher@lshtm.ac.uk
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AF PS DN UC LS. Performed the experiments: PS AS RDR PV BT. Analyzed the data: AF BN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: PS AF BN. Quality control of lens grading: GM MC.