About the Authors

Fang Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Lu, Huaijin Guan, Bo Gong

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Huaijin Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Lu, Huaijin Guan, Bo Gong

Affiliation Eye Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Bo Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Lu, Huaijin Guan, Bo Gong

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xiaoqi Liu

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Rongrong Zhu

Affiliation Eye Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Yong Wang

Affiliation Eye Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jingjing Qian

Affiliation Eye Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Tianqiu Zhou

Affiliation Eye Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoyan Lan

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Pu Wang

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Ying Lin

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Shi Ma

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

He Lin

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xiong Zhu

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Rong Chen

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xianjun Zhu

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yi Shi

shiyi197911@gmail.com (YS); zliny@yahoo.com (ZY)

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Zhenglin Yang

shiyi197911@gmail.com (YS); zliny@yahoo.com (ZY)

Affiliations Sichuan Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China, Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL HG BG XQL RRZ. Performed the experiments: YW JJQ TQZ XYL PW. Analyzed the data: YL SM HL XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC XJZ. Wrote the paper: YS ZY.