Table 1

Participants description

	Age at testing (years)	Age at surgery (months)	Cataract type at surgery	Presurgical visual acuity (best eye)	Most recent visual acuity (CC/DC: postsurgical; best eye)		Cataract family history
	Age at testing (years)	Age at surgery (months)	Cataract type at surgery	Presurgical visual acuity (best eye)	Decimal	logMAR	Cataract family history
CC group (N = 10)
CC-1	16.9	4	Dense	FFL+	0.33	0.47	No
CC-2	13.5	83	Absorbed	CF 3 m	0.15	0.79	No
CC-3	31.7	168	Absorbed	Unknown	0.1	1	Yes
CC-4	42.9	264	Absorbed	0.06 (decimal)	0.16	0.79	Yes
CC-5	16.1	186	Absorbed	0.03 (decimal)	0.08	1.1	No
CC-6	12.3	138	Dense	CF CF	0.03	1.4	Yes
CC-7	21.7	213	Dense	CF 0.5 m	0.12	0.9	Yes
CC-8	10.7	17	Dense	PL at 0.5 m	0.25	0.6	No
CC-9	23.5	3	Dense	FFL–	0.25	0.6	No
CC-10	17.2	34	Dense	FFL+	0.16	0.79	No
Summary	M: 20.7 R: 10–42	M: 111 (9.2 years) R: 4–264			GM: 0.14 R: 0.03–0.3	M: 0.86 R: 0.47–1.4
DC group (N = 9)
DC-1	24.4	31	Not dense	FFL+	0.5	0.3	No
DC-2	13.8	89	Dense	CF 1 m	0.66	0.17	Unknown
DC-3	16.2	130	Not dense	0.4	0.8	0.09	No
DC-4	13.2	71	Dense	FFL+	0.46	0.33	Unknown
DC-5	17.3	91	Not dense	0.16	0.8	0.09	Unknown
DC-6	11.5	91	Not dense	0.25	0.8	0.09	Unknown
DC-7	18.8	208	Not dense	0.2	0.7	0.13	No
DC-8	11.6	54	Dense	CF 1 m	1	0	Unknown
DC-9	13.5	30	Dense	FFL+	0.66	0.17	Unknown
Summary	M:15.6 R:11–24	M: 88.3 (7.4 years) R: 30–208	4 dense		GM: 0.7 R: 0.46 – 1	M: 0.16 R: 0 – 0.33
NC group (N = 10)
Summary	M: 15 R: 8–37				GM: 0.45 R: 0.25–0.8	M: 0.35 R: 0.1–0.6
SC group (N = 13)
Summary	M: 23.7 R: 11–40				1 (all)	0 (all)

PL, Perception light; CF, counting finger (equivalence with logMAR acuity has been reported to be 1.7–2.0 at 30 cm; Schulze-Bonsel et al., 2006); CF CF, counting finger close to face; FFL, fixate and follows light; M, mean; GM, geometric mean; R, range.