About the Authors

Nymph Chan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Shikun He

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Christine K. Spee

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Keijiro Ishikawa

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

David R. Hinton

dhinton@med.usc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC SH KI DRH. Performed the experiments: NC SH KI CS. Analyzed the data: NC SH KI DRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS. Wrote the paper: NC SH DRH.