About the Authors

Rosana D. Meyer

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David B. Sacks

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nader Rahimi

nrahimi@bu.edu

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDM NR. Performed the experiments: RDM NR. Analyzed the data: RDM NR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBS. Wrote the paper: NR.