About the Authors

Ralph J. Hazlewood

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Qingxia Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Frances K. Clark

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

John Kuchtey

Contributed equally to this work with: John Kuchtey, Rachel W. Kuchtey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Rachel W. Kuchtey

Contributed equally to this work with: John Kuchtey, Rachel W. Kuchtey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rachel.w.kuchtey@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.