About the Authors

Dru S. Dace

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Aslam A. Khan

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer L. Stark

Affiliation The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York, New York, United States of America

Jennifer Kelly

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Anne H. Cross

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rajendra S. Apte

apte@vision.wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD AC RSA. Performed the experiments: DD AAK JS JK. Analyzed the data: DD AAK RSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS AC. Wrote the paper: DD RSA.