About the Authors
- Ramalingam Mani
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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
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliation Elite School of Optometry, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India
- Saravanan Thilagavathi
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliation Elite School of Optometry, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India
- Padmanabhan Prema
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Roles Methodology, Supervision
Affiliation Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India
- Natarajan Viswanathan
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software
Affiliation Department of Bio-Statistics, Vision Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India
- Ratra Vineet
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Comprehensive Ophthalmology, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India
- Ratra Dhanashree
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: drak@snmail.org (RD); drdad@snmail.org (NA)
Affiliation Department of Vitreo-retinal Diseases, Medical Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai, India
- Narayanasamy Angayarkanni
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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.