About the Authors

Takahiro Minami

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Waka Ishida

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Tatsuma Kishimoto

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Isana Nakajima

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Shiori Hino

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SEED CO., LTD., Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ritsuko Arai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SEED CO., LTD., Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Toru Matsunaga

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SEED CO., LTD., Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Atsuki Fukushima

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsuki Fukushima, Satoru Yamagami

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

fukusima@kochi-u.ac.jp (AF); yamagami.satoru@nihon-u.ac.jp (SY)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Satoru Yamagami

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsuki Fukushima, Satoru Yamagami

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fukusima@kochi-u.ac.jp (AF); yamagami.satoru@nihon-u.ac.jp (SY)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Nihon University, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Research grant from SEED CO., LTD. (Minami, Fukushima); paid employment by SEED CO., LTD. (Hino, Arai, Matsunaga). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.