About the Authors
- Yanling Ouyang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yanling Ouyang, Fuqiang Li
* E-mail: yanlingyouyang@gmail.com
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Fuqiang Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yanling Ouyang, Fuqiang Li
Affiliation Eye Center affiliated with 2nd Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China
- Qing Shao
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Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Florian M. Heussen
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Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Pearse A. Keane
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Affiliation NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
- Nicole Stübiger
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Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Srinivas R. Sadda
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Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Uwe Pleyer
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Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
Dr. Li received funding from the Youth Research Foundation of the national health and family planning commission of Jilin Province, China. Dr. Keane has received a proportion of his funding from the Department of Health’s NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Drs. Keane and Heussen have received travel grants from the Allergan European Retina Panel. Dr. Pleyer received funding from the federal ministry of education and research of Germany (BMBF) through the Toxonet 02 research collaboration and has been the Principal Investigator/Consultant for Abbott, Alcon, Allergan, Amgen, Bausch and Lomb, Bayer/Schering, Centocor, Esba Tech, Novartis but no commercial interests or financial relationships to any agent/device/technique. Dr. Sadda receives research support and serves as a consultant to Carl Zeiss Meditec and Optos. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YO FL FMH UP. Performed the experiments: YO FL FMH QS. Analyzed the data: YO FL FMH QS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRS NS UP. Wrote the paper: YO FL PAK UP.