About the Authors

Jost B. Jonas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jost B. Jonas, Ningli Wang, Ya Xing Wang

Affiliations Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Ningli Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jost B. Jonas, Ningli Wang, Ya Xing Wang

Affiliation Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Beijing, China

Ya Xing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jost B. Jonas, Ningli Wang, Ya Xing Wang

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, China

Qi Sheng You

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, China

Diya Yang

Affiliation Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Key Laboratory, Beijing, China

Liang Xu

xlbio@yahoo.cn

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBJ, NW, YXW, QSY, DY, LX. Performed the experiments: JBJ, NW, YXW, QSY, DY, LX. Analyzed the data: JBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBJ, NW, LX. Wrote the paper: JBJ.