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The King's College London authors acknowledge funding from the Wellcome Trust, the European Union MyEuropia Marie Curie Research Training Network, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, the European Community's FP7 (HEALTH-F2-2008-201865-GEFOS), European Network of Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology (ENGAGE) (HEALTH-F4-2007-201413), the FP-5 GenomEUtwin Project (QLG2-CT-2002-01254), US National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Eye Institute (NEI) grant 1RO1EY018246 and genotyping by the NIH Center for Inherited Disease Research. The study also received support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre award to Guy's and St. Thomas' National Health Service Foundation Trust partnering with King's College London. We are grateful to the volunteer twins, C. Smoliner and M. Liew, and to R. Metlapally and Felicia Hawthorne in T.L.Y.'s laboratory for RASGRF1 expression studies.

The Rotterdam Study acknowledges Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO); the Erasmus Medical Center; Netherlands Organization for the Health Research and Development (ZonMw); UitZicht; Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE); the European Commission Directorate-General XII; the Municipality of Rotterdam; Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI); Lijf en Leven; MD Fonds; Henkes; Oogfonds; Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Het Oogziekenhuis (SWOO); Swart van Essen; Bevordering van Volkskracht; Blindenhulp; Landelijke Stichting voor Blinden en Slechtzienden (LSBS); Rotterdamse Vereniging voor Blindenbelangen; OOG Foundation; Algemene Nederlandse Vereniging ter Voorkoming van Blindheid (ANVVB); Rotterdam Eye Institute (REI); Laméris Ootech BV; Topcon BV; Heidelberg Engineering; A. Hooghart, C. Brussee, R. Bernaerts-Biskop, P. van Hilten, P. Arp, M. Jhamai, M. Moorhouse, J. Vergeer, M. Verkerk, S. Bervoets and P. van der Spek. E.S., A.F.-M. and L.M. were supported by grants from Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) (FIS PS09/01979) and Junta de Castilla y León (JcyL) (SA044A08 and GR93) and received institutional support from Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa en Cáncer (RTICC) (RD06/0020/000), ISCIII, Spain.

The Australian group acknowledges the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for the Australian Twin Registry (ATR) Enabling Grant, Project Grant 350415, Medical Genomics Grant, and the Genetic Cluster Computer (NWO 480-05-003), Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust, Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA), American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF), Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne Foundation, Foundation for Children and Jack Brockhoff Foundation.

The 1958 British Birth Cohort was funded for biomedical assessment (Medical Research Council), for the GWAS (Wellcome Trust 083478) and analysis at Great Ormond Street Hospital/University College London (UCL). Institute of Child Health and Moorfields Eye Hospital/Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL were each part-funded by NIHR Biomedical Research Centres awards.

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1. Pirro G Hysi and Terri L Young: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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1. Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
   Pirro G Hysi, Toby Andrew, Margarida C Lopes, Francis Carbonaro, Samantha J Fahy, Timothy D Spector & Christopher J Hammond
2. Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
   Terri L Young & Yi-Ju Li
3. Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Perth, Australia
   David A Mackey
4. Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
   David A Mackey & Alex W Hewitt
5. University of Salamanca, CIC-IBMCC (CSIC-USAL), Salamanca, Spain
   Alberto Fernández-Medarde, Lara Manyes, Angel Porteros & Eugenio Santos
6. Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   Abbas M Solouki, Johannes R Vingerling & Caroline C W Klaver
7. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   Abbas M Solouki, Johannes R Vingerling, M Kamran Ikram, Cornelia M van Duijn & Caroline C W Klaver
8. Genetics and Population Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
   Stuart Macgregor & Nicholas G Martin
9. Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
   Lee Yiu Fai & Pak C Sham
10. Medical Research Council Center for Epidemiology for Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
    Jugnoo S Rahi

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T.L.Y., D.A.M., T.A. and C.J.H. jointly conceived the project and supervised the work. S.M., Y.J.-L., L.Y.F., P.C.S., N.G.M., P.G.H. and A.M.S. helped with the data analyses. A.F.-M., L.M., A.P. and E.S. performed the animal experiments. A.W.H., J.R.V., M.K.I., C.M.v.D., T.D.S., J.S.R. and C.C.W.K. supervised cohort recruitment, genotyping and analysis in replication cohorts. F.C., S.J.F. and M.C.L. contributed during subject and data collection.

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Hysi, P., Young, T., Mackey, D. et al. A genome-wide association study for myopia and refractive error identifies a susceptibility locus at 15q25.Nat Genet 42, 902–905 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.664

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• Received: 02 February 2010
• Accepted: 19 August 2010
• Published: 12 September 2010
• Issue Date: October 2010
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.664