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Milam A. Brantley, Jr., milam.brantley@vumv.org
Conceptualization: M.A.B.J. and D.P.J.; sample ascertainment: J.L.H., M.A.P.-V., W.K.S. and A.A.; data analysis: C.M. and K.U.; data interpretation: S.L.M., K.U. and M.A.B.J.; writing—original draft preparation: S.L.M., C.M. and K.U.; writing—review and editing: S.L.M., K.U., M.A.B.J., W.K.S. and A.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
The authors thank all the patients who generously participated in this study. The authors acknowledge Jessica N. Cooke Bailey for extracting data from the database, and ViLinh Tran and Yating Wang for their technical expertise with the mass spectrometer.
No conflicting relationships exist for any of the authors.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants R01 EY22618 (MAB) and R01 EY012118 (MP-V, JLH, WKS, and AA) and an unrestricted award to the Vanderbilt Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences from Research to Prevent Blindness. The sponsor or funding organization had no role in the design or conduct of this research.
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