The Writing Group members for The Glaucoma Gene Research Group who had complete access to the raw data needed for this report and who bear authorship responsibility are Kouhei Hashizume, Yukihiko Mashima, Tomoyo Fumayama, Yuichirou Ohtake, Itaru Kimura, Kazuhide Yoshida, and Karin Ishikawa (Department of Ophthalmology) and Koichi Miyaki (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health), all at the Keio University School of Medicine.
The Glaucoma Gene Research Group members at the DNA and Data Center are Yuichiro Ohtake, Kumiko Soma, Tomihiko Tanino, and Daijiro Kurosaka, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Kenji Nakamoto and Noriko Yasuda, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Kotaro Suzuki, Ryosuke Kawamura, Hidenao Ideta, Ideta Eye Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan; Takuro Fujimaki and Akira Murakami, Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Ryo Asaoka and Yoshihiro Hotta, Department of Ophthalmology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan; Takahisa Koga and Hidenobu Tanihara, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan; Takashi Kanamoto and Hiromu Mishima, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; and Takeo Fukuchi and Haruki Abe, Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.
The authors thank Makoto Nagano (Research Department of the R&D Center, BML) for excellent technical assistance with the genotyping assay (Invader; Third Wave Diagnostics).