About the Authors

Ai Ling Wang

a-wang@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Forsythe Laboratory for the Investigation of the Aging Retina, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Thomas J. Lukas

Affiliation Forsythe Laboratory for the Investigation of the Aging Retina, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ming Yuan

Affiliation Forsythe Laboratory for the Investigation of the Aging Retina, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nga Du

Affiliation Forsythe Laboratory for the Investigation of the Aging Retina, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

James T. Handa

Affiliation Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Arthur H. Neufeld

Affiliation Forsythe Laboratory for the Investigation of the Aging Retina, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALW AHN. Performed the experiments: ALW TL MY ND. Analyzed the data: ALW TL MY ND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTH. Wrote the paper: ALW TL AHN.