About the Authors

Birgit Fritz

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Fritz, Anne Jenner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Microbiology and Hygiene Group, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Anne Jenner

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Fritz, Anne Jenner

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Microbiology and Hygiene Group, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany

Siegfried Wahl

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Christian Lappe

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany

Achim Zehender

Roles Resources

Affiliation Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany

Christian Horn

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Singen, Germany

Frithjof Blessing

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Singen, Germany

Matthias Kohl

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Group for Statistics in Biology and Medicine, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Focke Ziemssen

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Center for Ophthalmology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany

Markus Egert

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Markus.Egert@hs-furtwangen.de

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Microbiology and Hygiene Group, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Competing Interests

The affiliation of some authors with Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH does not alter the adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.