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On the cover: Fundus photograph of the right eye from a patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (surgeon’s view). There are flame-shaped and dot blot hemorrhages within the retina as well as microaneurysms. Note the presence of a fibrovascular membrane extending from the optic nerve nasally, superiorly, and inferiorly causing a tractional retinal detachment superonasal to the optic nerve. In addition, there are retinal striae within the macula due to traction from the fibrovascular membrane. This fibrovascular membrane was surgically removed and evaluated via transcriptome analysis. This image is included in the Supplementary Data of an article in this issue by Lam et al., “Identification of RUNX1 as a Mediator of Aberrant Retinal Angiogenesis” (p. 1950). Photograph courtesy of Leo A. Kim, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.


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