[1
]National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore,
Maryland, United States of America
[2
]Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore,
Maryland, United States of America
[3
]Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
[4
]Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, Italy
[5
]Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles BioMedical
Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States
of America
[6
]Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
[7
]Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
[8
]MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
[9
]Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and
Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
[10
]Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, and DCCT/EDIC Research Group, The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial
and Follow-up Study, The Biostatistics Center, The George Washington University, Rockville,
Maryland, United States of America
[11
]Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, St Thomas'
Hospital, London, United Kingdom
[12
]Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California,
United States of America
[13
]Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Eye Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
[14
]Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
[15
]Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
[16
]Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute,
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
[17
]Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National
University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
[18
]Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Clinica Oculistica Universita' degli studi di
Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
[19
]The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and Follow-up Study, The Biostatistics
Center, The George Washington University, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
[20
]Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Split, Croatia
[21
]Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United
Kingdom
[22
]Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
[23
]Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
[24
]Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing, Netherlands Genomics Initiative, The Hague,
the Netherlands
[25
]Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
[26
]Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
[27
]Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital “Sestre Milosrdnice”, Zagreb, Croatia
[28
]Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
[29
]Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
[30
]MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University
College London, London, United Kingdom
[31
]Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
[32
]Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Institute of Child Health, University College London,
London, United Kingdom
[33
]Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
United States of America
MOE Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical
College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
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