About the Authors

Yukari Yagi-Yaguchi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan

Takefumi Yamaguchi

tym.i.eye.i@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan

Yumi Okuyama

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan

Yoshiyuki Satake

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan

Kazuo Tsubota

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Shimazaki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY. Performed the experiments: YY TY YO. Analyzed the data: YY TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TY YS KT. Wrote the paper: YY TY YS KT JS.