About the Authors

John W. Crabb

crabbj@ccf.org

Affiliations Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Bo Hu

Affiliations Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

John S. Crabb

Affiliation Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Pierre Triozzi

Current Address: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Yogen Saunthararajah

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Raymond Tubbs

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Arun D. Singh

Affiliations Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWC YS. Performed the experiments: BH JSC YS RT. Analyzed the data: BH JSC YS RT JWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADS. Wrote the paper: JWC BH PT YS ADS.