About the Authors

Xue Tan

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Katsuhito Fujiu

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ubiquitous Health Informatics, School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Manabe

Affiliation Department of Aging Research, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan

Junko Nishida

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Reiko Yamagishi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuya Terashima

Affiliation Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kouji Matsushima

Affiliation Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Toshikatsu Kaburaki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ryozo Nagai

Affiliation Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

Yasuo Yanagi

yanagi-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore, Medical Retina Department, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-NUS (National University of Singapore) Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KF YY. Performed the experiments: XT JN RY. Analyzed the data: XT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IM KF YT KM YY. Wrote the paper: XT KF YT KM TK YY. Participated in the research design: IM RN.