About the Authors

Colm McAlinden

Contributed equally to this work with: Colm McAlinden, Qinmei Wang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Qinmei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Colm McAlinden, Qinmei Wang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P.R. China, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Konrad Pesudovs

Affiliation Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Xin Yang

Affiliation School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Fangjun Bao

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P.R. China, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Ayong Yu

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P.R. China, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Shishi Lin

Affiliation School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Yifan Feng

Affiliation School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Jinhai Huang

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Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P.R. China, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM QMW JHH. Performed the experiments: FJB XY SSL. Analyzed the data: CM KP AY JHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QMW SSL YFF. Wrote the paper: CM QMW JHH.