About the Authors

Donghong Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Donghong Jiang, Xiangqian Xiao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The Second People Hospital, Taixing, China

Xiangqian Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Donghong Jiang, Xiangqian Xiao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The Second People Hospital, Taixing, China

Tongsheng Fu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, People Hospital, Yangzhong, China

Alireza Mashaghi

Affiliation Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qinghuai Liu

jiaxu_hong@163.com (JH); liuqh0545@126.com (QL)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jiaxu Hong

jiaxu_hong@163.com (JH); liuqh0545@126.com (QL)

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Eye, and ENT Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Myopia of State Health Ministry and Key Laboratory of Visual Impairment and Restoration of Shanghai, Shangha, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Fujian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH QL. Performed the experiments: DJ XX TF. Analyzed the data: JH DJ AM. Wrote the paper: JH DJ AM QL.