Kaszubski, Patrick A.
Ben Ami, Tal
Saade, Céline
Nabati, Camellia
Kumar, Vivek
Santos, Ana Rita
Silva, Rufino
Cachulo, Maria Luz
Cunha-Vaz, José G.
Smith, R. Theodore https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-943X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Research to Prevent Blindness
National Eye Institute (R01 EY015520)
Article History
Received: 21 October 2016
Accepted: 25 February 2017
First Online: 7 March 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This work was supported by an individual investigator research award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (RTS), National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute Grant R01 EY015520 (RTS), and unrestricted funds from Research to Prevent Blindness (RTS). The funding organizations had no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit for publication.
: The authors have no disclosures to report.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: 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 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.