About the Authors

Shuangqing Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuangqing Wu, Aizhu Tao

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology Red-Cross Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Aizhu Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuangqing Wu, Aizhu Tao

Affiliations Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Hong Jiang

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Zhe Xu

Affiliations Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Victor Perez

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jianhua Wang

jwang3@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW AT JW. Performed the experiments: AT SW. Analyzed the data: SW AT HJ ZX JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW AT JW. Wrote the paper: SW AT JW. Approval of the manuscript: SW AT HJ ZX VP JW.