Verdina, Tommaso http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7877-4485
Greenstein, Vivienne C.
Sodi, Andrea
Tsang, Stephen H.
Burke, Tomas R.
Passerini, Ilaria
Allikmets, Rando
Virgili, Gianni
Cavallini, Gian Maria
Rizzo, Stanislao
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Eye Institute/NIH (EY09076)
Article History
Received: 1 September 2016
Revised: 29 December 2016
Accepted: 13 March 2017
First Online: 2 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The National Eye Institute/NIH EY09076, Foundation Fighting Blindness and Research to Prevent Blindness of the Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University provided financial support in the form of grants. S.H.T., a member of the RD-CURE Consortium, 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 Joel Hoffman Fund. The sponsors had no role in the design or conduct of this research.
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: 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. For this type of study formal consent is not required.