About the Authors

Hideo Nakanishi

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Ryo Yamada

Affiliations Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Norimoto Gotoh

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Hisako Hayashi

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Kenji Yamashiro

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Noriaki Shimada

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kyoko Ohno-Matsui

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Mochizuki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Masaaki Saito

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Tomohiro Iida

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Keitaro Matsuo

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Kazuo Tajima

Affiliation Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Nagahisa Yoshimura

nagaeye@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp (NY); fumi@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp (FM)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Fumihiko Matsuda

nagaeye@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp (NY); fumi@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp (FM)

Affiliations Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, CEA/Institute de Genomique, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN NG. Performed the experiments: HN NG HH. Analyzed the data: HN RY NY FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NG HH KY NS KOM MM MS TI KM KT. Wrote the paper: HN RY NY FM. Obtained the funding: FM, NY. Performed statistical analysis: RY.