About the Authors

Ya Xing Wang

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Liang Xu

xlbio1@gmail.com (LX); Jost.Jonas@augen.ma.uni-heidelberg.de (JBJ)

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiu Ying Sun

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yang Zou

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Hai Tao Zhang

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jost B. Jonas

xlbio1@gmail.com (LX); Jost.Jonas@augen.ma.uni-heidelberg.de (JBJ)

Affiliations Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YXW LX JBJ. Performed the experiments: YXW LX XYS YZ HTZ JBJ. Analyzed the data: YXW JBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YXW LX XYS YZ HTZ JBJ. Wrote the paper: YXW JBJ.