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  1. Luciano S Pereira1,2,
  2. Michael K Yoon1,
  3. Thomas N Hwang1,
  4. Jenny E Hong1,
  5. Kathyrn Ray1,
  6. Timothy J McCulley1,
  7. Travis Porco3
  1. 1Department of Ophthalmology, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
  2. 2Department of Ophthalmology, Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  3. 3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
  1. Correspondence to Timothy J McCulley, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, 10 Koret Way, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; tmccull5{at}jhmi.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.2011.205187

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    • Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the UCSF.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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