About the Authors

Supawadee Sukseree

Affiliation Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ying-Ting Chen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Maria Laggner

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Florian Gruber

Affiliations Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Biotechnology of Skin Aging, Vienna, Austria

Valérie Petit

Affiliations Institut Curie, PSL Research University, INSERM U1021, CNRS UMR3347, Normal and Pathological Development of Melanocytes, Orsay, France, INSERM, Orsay, France, Equipe labellisée – Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, Université Paris 11, Orsay, France

Ionela-Mariana Nagelreiter

Affiliations Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Biotechnology of Skin Aging, Vienna, Austria

Veronika Mlitz

Affiliation Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Heidemarie Rossiter

Affiliation Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andreas Pollreisz

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Lionel Larue

Affiliations Institut Curie, PSL Research University, INSERM U1021, CNRS UMR3347, Normal and Pathological Development of Melanocytes, Orsay, France, INSERM, Orsay, France, Equipe labellisée – Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, Université Paris 11, Orsay, France

Erwin Tschachler

Affiliation Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Leopold Eckhart

leopold.eckhart@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Research Division of Biology and Pathobiology of the Skin, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SS YTC AP USE LL ET LE. Formal analysis: SS YTC ML VM LE. Investigation: SS YTC ML FG VP IMN VM HR. Methodology: SS YTC ML FG VP IMN VM HR. Writing - original draft: SS YTC LE. Writing - review & editing: SS YTC ML FG VP IMN VM HR AP USE LL ET LE.