About the Authors

Seung-il Choi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Yong-Sun Maeng

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Tae-im Kim

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Institute of Vision Research, Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Brain Korea 21 Plus Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Yangsin Lee

Affiliation Department of Integrated Omics for Biomedical Science, Graduate School, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Yong-Sun Kim

Affiliations Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, South Korea, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, South Korea

Eung Kweon Kim

eungkkim@yuhs.ac

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Institute of Vision Research, Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Brain Korea 21 Plus Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC YM TK EK. Performed the experiments: SC YL. Analyzed the data: SC YM TK YK EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK YK EK. Wrote the paper: SC EK.