About the Authors

Tomoyo Matsumura

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Tomokazu Fujimoto

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Akiko Futakuchi

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Yuji Takihara

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Fumika Watanabe-Kitamura

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Eri Takahashi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Miyuki Inoue-Mochita

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Hidenobu Tanihara

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

Affiliation Director of Hospital, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Toshihiro Inoue

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

noel@da2.so-net.ne.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.