About the Authors

Sindhu Saraswathy

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

James C. H. Tan

Affiliations Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Fei Yu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brian A. Francis

Affiliations Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David R. Hinton

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert N. Weinreb

Affiliation Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Alex S. Huang

Ahuang@Doheny.org

Affiliations Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS JT BF DH RW AH. Performed the experiments: SS AH. Analyzed the data: SS JT AH FY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS JT AH DH RW. Wrote the paper: SS JT AH BF DH RW FY.