About the Authors

Baixiang Xiao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affiliated Eye Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang City, China

Gareth D. Mercer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Ling Jin

Roles Validation

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, China

Han Lin Lee

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Tingting Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Ophthalmology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yanfang Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, China

Yuanping Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, China

Alastair K. Denniston

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Catherine A. Egan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Jia Li

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Orbis International, New York, NY, United States of America

Qing Lu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Orbis International, New York, NY, United States of America

Ping Xu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Orbis International, New York, NY, United States of America

Nathan Congdon

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

ncongdon1@gmail.com

Affiliations The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, China, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Orbis International, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.