About the Authors

Ramalingam Mani

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

Affiliation RS Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

P. S. Shobha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Elite School of Optometry, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Saravanan Thilagavathi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Elite School of Optometry, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Padmanabhan Prema

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Natarajan Viswanathan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Bio-Statistics, Vision Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Ratra Vineet

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comprehensive Ophthalmology, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Ratra Dhanashree

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

drak@snmail.org (RD); drdad@snmail.org (NA)

Affiliation Department of Vitreo-retinal Diseases, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Narayanasamy Angayarkanni

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

drak@snmail.org (RD); drdad@snmail.org (NA)

Affiliation RS Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Novartis Healthcare Private Limited funded this project. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.