About the Authors
- Birgit Fritz
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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
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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
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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
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Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources
Affiliation Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany
- Achim Zehender
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany
- Christian Horn
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Roles Investigation
Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Singen, Germany
- Frithjof Blessing
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Roles Resources, Supervision
Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Singen, Germany
- Matthias Kohl
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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
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Roles Supervision
Affiliation Center for Ophthalmology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
- Markus Egert
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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.