About the Authors

Mayumi Ueta

mueta@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Research Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Katsushi Tokunaga

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Chie Sotozono

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Hiromi Sawai

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Gen Tamiya

Affiliation Advanced Molecular Epidemiology Research Institute, Faculty of Medcine, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan

Tsutomu Inatomi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Shigeru Kinoshita

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MU. Performed the experiments: MU KT HS. Analyzed the data: MU KT HS GT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MU CS TI SK. Wrote the paper: MU.