About the Authors

Isao Nakata

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Genomic Medicine/Inserm U.852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Kenji Yamashiro

yamashro@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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

Ryo Yamada

Affiliation Center for Genomic Medicine/Inserm U.852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Norimoto Gotoh

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Genomic Medicine/Inserm U.852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Hideo Nakanishi

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Genomic Medicine/Inserm U.852, 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/Inserm U.852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Akitaka Tsujikawa

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

Atsushi Otani

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

Masaaki Saito

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

Tomohiro Iida

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

Akio Oishi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Keitaro Matsuo

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

Kazuo Tajima

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

Fumihiko Matsuda

Affiliation Center for Genomic Medicine/Inserm U.852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Nagahisa Yoshimura

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IN KY HN NY. Performed the experiments: IN NG HN HH. Analyzed the data: IN RY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IN KY RY NG HN HH AT AO MS TI AO KM KT FM NY. Wrote the paper: IN KY RY.