About the Authors

Takehiro Yamashita

Contributed equally to this work with: Takehiro Yamashita, Taiji Sakamoto

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Taiji Sakamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Takehiro Yamashita, Taiji Sakamoto

tsakamot@m3.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Naoya Yoshihara

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Hiroto Terasaki

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Yuya Kii

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Minoru Tanaka

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Kumiko Nakao

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY TS. Performed the experiments: TY YK MT KN. Analyzed the data: TY NY HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NY HT. Wrote the paper: TY TS.