About the Authors

Louise V. Wolf

Affiliation The Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ying Yang

Affiliation The Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jinhua Wang

Affiliation NYU Cancer Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Qing Xie

Affiliation The Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Barbara Braunger

Affiliation Institute of Human Anatomy and Embryology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Ernst R. Tamm

Affiliation Institute of Human Anatomy and Embryology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Jiri Zavadil

Affiliations NYU Cancer Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Ales Cvekl

cvekl@aecom.yu.edu

Affiliation The Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC. Performed the experiments: LVW YY QX BB. Analyzed the data: LVW YY JW ERT JZ AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC. Wrote the paper: LVW JZ AC.