Bakhoum, Mathieu F.
Wu, Wei-Pu
White, Eugenia C.
Sengillo, Jesse D.
Sanfilippo, Christian
Morcos, Marcelle M.
Freund, K. Bailey
Perry, Henry D.
Sarraf, David
Tsang, Stephen H.
Article History
Received: 31 October 2017
Revised: 7 January 2018
Accepted: 17 January 2018
First Online: 29 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Jonas Children’s Vision Care, and Bernard & Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory are supported by the National Institute of Health [5P30EY019007, R01EY018213, R01EY024698, R01EY026682, R21AG050437], National Cancer Institute Core [5P30CA013696], the Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Physician-Scientist Award, unrestricted funds from RPB, New York, NY, USA. J.D.S is supported by the RPB medical student fellowship. S.H.T. is a member of the RD-CURE Consortium and is supported by the Tistou and Charlotte Kerstan Foundation, the Schneeweiss Stem Cell Fund, New York State [C029572], the Foundation Fighting Blindness New York Regional Research Center Grant [C-NY05-0705-0312], and the Gebroe Family Foundation.
: K.B.F. is a consultant for Genentech, Optovue, Optos, Graybug Vision, and Heidelberg Engineering and receives research support from Genentech. All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria, educational grants, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements) or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.