About the Authors

Masahiko Sugimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

sugimochi@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan

Mineo Kondo

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan

Yuki Kamimoto

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan

Tomoaki Ikeda

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan

Alecia Cutler

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmic Research, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ali Mariya

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmic Research, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Bela Anand-Apte

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmic Research, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.