About the Authors

Dominika Pohlmann

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

dominika.pohlmann@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Stephan Schlickeiser

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sylvia Metzner

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Lenglinger

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Sibylle Winterhalter

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Uwe Pleyer

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

DP has served as consult for Allergan. SW has served as consultant for: Allergan, Novartis, Bayer, MSD, Heidelberg Engineering. UP has served as principal investigator or consultant for: Abbvie, Alcon, Allergan, Novartis, Santen, Thea. None of the authors has a direct proprietary interest in any of the products used in this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.