About the Authors

Elaine W. Chong

elainechongwt@alumni.unimelb.edu.au

‡ EWC and YW are joint first authors on this work. FMC and RHG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore

Yuanyuan Wang

‡ EWC and YW are joint first authors on this work. FMC and RHG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Liubov D. Robman

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Khin Zaw Aung

Affiliation Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Galina A. Makeyeva

Affiliation Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Graham G. Giles

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Stephen Graves

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic, Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry, Discipline of Public Health, School of Population Health & Clinical Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Flavia M. Cicuttini

‡ EWC and YW are joint first authors on this work. FMC and RHG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Robyn H. Guymer

‡ EWC and YW are joint first authors on this work. FMC and RHG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EWC YW LDR GGG SG FMC RHG. Performed the experiments: EWC YW LDR KZA GAM GGG SG FMC RHG. Analyzed the data: EWC YW LDR FMC RHG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EWC YW LDR KZA GAM GGG SG FMC RHG. Wrote the paper: EWC YW FMC RHG.