About the Authors
- Dong Shi
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
- Tomoyo Funayama
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Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Bunkyo University, Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan
- Yukihiko Mashima
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshimasa Takano
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Ai Shimizu
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Kotaro Yamamoto
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- MinGe Mengkegale
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Akiko Miyazawa
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Noriko Yasuda
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Takeo Fukuchi
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Affiliation Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
- Haruki Abe
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Affiliation Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
- Hidenao Ideta
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Affiliation Ideta Eye Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan
- Kohji Nishida
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Toru Nakazawa
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Julia E. Richards
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, W. K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Nobuo Fuse
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* E-mail: fusen@oph.med.tohoku.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: T. Funayama YM KN NF. Performed the experiments: DS T. Funayama YT AS KY MM AM TN NF. Analyzed the data: DS T. Funayama YM JER NF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T. Funayama YT AS NY T. Fukuchi HA HI TN. Wrote the paper: DS KY JER NF.