About the Authors

Sladjana Dukic-Stefanovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Sladjana Dukic-Stefanovic, Jan Walther

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jan Walther

Contributed equally to this work with: Sladjana Dukic-Stefanovic, Jan Walther

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Sebastian Wosch

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Gerolf Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Human Reproduction and Endocrinology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Wiedemann

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Henry Alexander

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Human Reproduction and Endocrinology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Claudepierre

thomas.claudepierre@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PW HA TC. Performed the experiments: SDS JW SW TC. Analyzed the data: GZ PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ HA. Wrote the paper: SDS TC.