About the Authors
- Li Wen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wen, Meidong Zhu
Affiliation Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Meidong Zhu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wen, Meidong Zhu
* E-mail: meidong.zhu@sydney.edu.au
Affiliations Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Lions New South Wales Eye Bank, NSW Organ and Tissue Donation Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Michele C. Madigan
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Affiliations Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
- Jingjing You
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Affiliation Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Nicholas J. C. King
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Affiliation Discipline of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
- Francis A. Billson
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Affiliations Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sight for Life Foundation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Kathryn McClellan
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Affiliations Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Lions New South Wales Eye Bank, NSW Organ and Tissue Donation Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Gerard Sutton
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Affiliations Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Lions New South Wales Eye Bank, NSW Organ and Tissue Donation Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Vision Eye Institute, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
- Con Petsoglou
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Affiliations Save Sight Institute & Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Lions New South Wales Eye Bank, NSW Organ and Tissue Donation Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Competing Interests
The Vision Eye Institute is an employer of Professor Sutton, however the company does not provide any financial support or has influence on research performed by our group. There is no competing interest due to employment by this company. Professor Francis Billson, AO is an unpaid consultant at the Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney and the Chairman and Director of Sight For Life Foundation, a charitable Foundation whose charitable purpose is to support the activities of Sydney Eye Hospital as a teaching Hospital of the University of Sydney. The Sight For Life Foundation has no competing interest in this study nor financial support or any other involvement in this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LW MZ MCM NJCK GS CP FAB KM. Performed the experiments: LW MZ MCM. Analyzed the data: LW MZ MCM JY NJCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FAB KM GS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LW MZ MCM NJCK JY CP FAB KM GS.