About the Authors

Zhiping Liu

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

Pengxia Wan

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

Hucheng Duan

Affiliation Ophthalmic Center of the Second People's Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, China

Jin Zhou

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

Bowei Tan

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

Ying Liu

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

Qiang Zhou

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

Chenjing Zhou

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

Zheqian Huang

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

Bishan Tian

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

Chaoyang Li

clioffice@yahoo.cn (CYL); wzc001@hotmail.com (ZCW)

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

Zhichong Wang

clioffice@yahoo.cn (CYL); wzc001@hotmail.com (ZCW)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZPL PXW CYL ZCW. Performed the experiments: ZPL PXW HCD JZ BWT YL QZ CJZ ZQH BST. Analyzed the data: ZPL PXW HCD JZ BWT YL QZ CJZ ZQH BST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCD JZ BWT YL QZ CJZ ZQH BST. Wrote the paper: ZPL CYL ZCW.