Drusen and pigment abnormality predict the development of neovascular age-related macular degeneration in Japanese patients

• Shoji Notomi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: noutomi.shouji.926@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7935-4244

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• Satomi Shiose,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Keijiro Ishikawa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Yosuke Fukuda,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Kumiko Kano,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Kenichiro Mori,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Iori Wada,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Yoshihiro Kaizu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Hidetaka Matsumoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2311-0280

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• Masato Akiyama,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ocular Pathology and Imaging Science, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Koh-Hei Sonoda

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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