About the Authors

Cynthia Ciwei Lim

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Boon Wee Teo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

E. Shyong Tai

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

Su Chi Lim

Affiliation Diabetes Centre, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Choong Meng Chan

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Sunil Sethi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Tien Y. Wong

Affiliations Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore, Singapore, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Charumathi Sabanayagam

charumathi.sabanayagam@seri.com.sg

Affiliations Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS CL. Performed the experiments: CL CS. Analyzed the data: CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TYW CS. Wrote the paper: CL BWT EST SCL CMC SS TYW CS.