Jeong Hun Bae: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – original draft
Ah Reum Hwang: Role: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Chan Yun Kim: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Hyeong Gon Yu: Role: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draft
Hyoung Jun Koh: Role: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draft
Woo Ick Yang: Role: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Hae Ran Chang: Role: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Sung Chul Lee:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9438-2385
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draft
Alfred S. Lewin: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
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Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
30
June
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0180482
Affiliations
[1
]Medical Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital,
Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
[2
]Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic
of Korea
[3
]Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul,
Republic of Korea
[4
]Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of
Korea
University of Florida, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-17-11522
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180482
PMC ID: 5493406
PubMed ID: 28666022
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Funded by: Samsung Biomedical Research Institute grant
Award ID: SMX1132251
Award Recipient
:
Jeong Hun Bae
Funded by: Medical Research Funds from Kangbuk Samsung Hospital
Award Recipient
:
Jeong Hun Bae
This work was supported by Medical Research Funds from Kangbuk Samsung Hospital (
https://www.kbsmc.co.kr/) and Samsung Biomedical Research Institute grant #SMX1132251 (
http://www.smc.or.kr/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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