About the Authors

Akira Shiono

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Jiro Kogo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kogo@marianna-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroki Sasaki

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Ryo Yomoda

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Tatsuya Jujo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Naoto Tokuda

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Yasushi Kitaoka

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Hitoshi Takagi

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

This work received research funding support from Novartis Pharma K.K. The funding support received does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare no other potential competing interests related to the publication of this paper or the study on which it was based.