About the Authors

Richard A. Stone

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stone@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John W. Tobias

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Penn Genomics and Sequencing Core, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wenjie Wei

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xia Carlstedt

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Disease, New England College of Optometry, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lixin Zhang

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Disease, New England College of Optometry, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

P. Michael Iuvone

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Debora L. Nickla

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Disease, New England College of Optometry, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: RAS serves as an advisor to iView Therapeutics, Inc. (https://www.iviewtherapeutics.com/). PMI serves as an advisor to Spave Science, Inc. (https://www.spavescience.com/) and to NeuroRays, LLC (https://neurorays.com). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.