About the Authors

Qihua Le

Contributed equally to this work with: Qihua Le, Xinhan Cui

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Research Center, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Myopia key laboratory of ministry of health, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xinhan Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Qihua Le, Xinhan Cui

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jun Xiang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ling Ge

Affiliation Department of Ocular Surface Disease, Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention & Treatment Center, Jing’an District, Shanghai, China

Lan Gong

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Myopia key laboratory of ministry of health, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jianjiang Xu

jianjiang-xu@163.com

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Myopia key laboratory of ministry of health, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Xu. Performed the experiments: QL XC J. Xiang L. Ge. Analyzed the data: QL XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L. Gong. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: QL.