About the Authors

Xue-bin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-bin Wang, Chen Qiao

Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Chen Qiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-bin Wang, Chen Qiao

Current address: Corneal Department, Hankou Eye Hospital of Wuhan Aier Corneal specialist, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Li Wei

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan university, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ya-di Han

Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ning-hua Cui

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Zhu-liang Huang

Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zu-hua Li

Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fang Zheng

yanming72@whu.edu.cn (MY); zhengfang@whu.edu.cn (FZ)

Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ming Yan

yanming72@whu.edu.cn (MY); zhengfang@whu.edu.cn (FZ)

Affiliations Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan university, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XBW FZ MY. Performed the experiments: XBW YDH ZLH ZHL. Analyzed the data: NHC ZLH ZHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CQ LW. Wrote the paper: XBW FZ CQ.