Braddock, Freddie L. http://orcid.org/0009-0008-0754-1834
Gardner, Jessica C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7053-0707
Bhattacharyya, Nihar
Sanchez-Pintado, Beatriz
Costa, Marcos
Zarouchlioti, Christina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5096-177X
Szabo, Anita
Lišková, Petra
Cheetham, Michael E.
Young, Robert D.
Thaung, Caroline http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8318-046X
Davidson, Alice E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1816-6151
Tuft, Stephen J. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8192-5192
Hardcastle, Alison J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-6770
Article History
Received: 26 June 2024
Revised: 29 July 2024
Accepted: 14 August 2024
First Online: 21 August 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committees of University College London (UCL) (22/EE/0090) and Moorfields Eye Hospital (MEH) London (13/LO/1084) and was conducted in accordance/compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. A written informed consent form was obtained from all participants who provided peripheral blood or corneal tissue samples. Control corneal tissue was similarly isolated from donor corneoscleral discs rejected for clinical transplantation (Miracles in Sight Eye Bank, TX, USA).