About the Authors

Dan Cao

Affiliations Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaodong Jiao

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xing Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Anselm Hennis

Affiliation Ministry of Health and University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados

M. Cristina Leske

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Barbara Nemesure

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

J. Fielding Hejtmancik

f3h@helix.nih.gov

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC XJ XL AH CL BN JFH. Performed the experiments: CD XJ. Analyzed the data: CD XJ JFH. Wrote the paper: DC XJ JFH.