About the Authors

Asaka Lee Shiozawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Asaka Lee Shiozawa, Tsutomu Igarashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of Molecular Analysis, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Maika Hosoi Kobayashi

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Shiozawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Analysis, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Ikeda

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki City, Miyazaki, Japan

Yoshitaka Miyagawa

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Fumiki Okamoto

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Mashito Sakai

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Okada

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Center for Gene and Cell Therapy, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tsutomu Igarashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Asaka Lee Shiozawa, Tsutomu Igarashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tutomu@nms.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Kamakari, Inzai City, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.