About the Authors

Ming-Wai Poon

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Wai Poon, Jia He

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, The HKU Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Jia He

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Wai Poon, Jia He

Affiliations The HKU Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Xiaowei Fang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Eye Institute of Xiamen University, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China

Zhao Zhang

Affiliations The HKU Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Weixin Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Junwen Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Fangfang Qiu

Affiliation Eye Institute of Xiamen University, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China

Hung-Fat Tse

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Wei Li

Affiliation Eye Institute of Xiamen University, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China

Zuguo Liu

qzlian@hku.hk (QL); zuguoliu@xmu.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliation Eye Institute of Xiamen University, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China

Qizhou Lian

qzlian@hku.hk (QL); zuguoliu@xmu.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, The HKU Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL MQP ZL. Performed the experiments: MWP JH ZZ XF WW JW FQ WL. Analyzed the data: MWP JH XF WW JW FQ WL HFT ZL QL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWP JH XF WW JW FQ HFT WL ZL QL. Wrote the paper: MWP QL.