About the Authors

Masahito Yoshihara

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroko Ohmiya

Affiliations Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Preventive Medicine and Applied Genomics Unit, RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and Communication, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Susumu Hara

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Satoshi Kawasaki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

FANTOM consortium

Membership of the FANTOM consortium is provided in S2 Table.

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Affiliation RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Masayoshi Itoh

Affiliations Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Hideya Kawaji

kawaji@gsc.riken.jp (HK); knishida@ophthal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliations Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Preventive Medicine and Applied Genomics Unit, RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and Communication, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Motokazu Tsujikawa

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kohji Nishida

kawaji@gsc.riken.jp (HK); knishida@ophthal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK MY MI YH MT KN. Performed the experiments: MY SH. Analyzed the data: MY HO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK. Wrote the paper: MY HK MI MT.