About the Authors

Xin Xia

Affiliations Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai First People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai, Shanghai Jiaotong University, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Ocular Fundus Diseases, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yiwen Li

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

Deqiang Huang

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

Zhengying Wang

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

Lingyu Luo

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

Ying Song

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lian Zhao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rong Wen

rwen@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

Rong Wen serves as a consultant for Neurotech USA. This did not alter the authors' adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX YL RW. Performed the experiments: XX YL DH ZW LL YS LZ RW. Analyzed the data: XX YL LZ RW. Wrote the paper: XX YL RW.