About the Authors

Chenying Guo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ganesh.prasanna@novartis.com(GP); chenying.guo@novartis.com(CG)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Xin Qu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Nalini Rangaswamy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Barrett Leehy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Chuanxi Xiang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Dennis Rice

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Ganesh Prasanna

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ganesh.prasanna@novartis.com(GP); chenying.guo@novartis.com(CG)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are affiliated with the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.