About the Authors

Ling Yu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University Hospitals Eye Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, China

Yuxi Zheng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University Hospitals Eye Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Brian J. Liu

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University Hospitals Eye Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Min Hyung Kang

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University Hospitals Eye Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

J. Cameron Millar

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience, North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Douglas J. Rhee

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

dougrhee@aol.com

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University Hospitals Eye Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.