About the Authors

Xue Chen

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Shi Song Rong

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Qihua Xu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Ophthalmology, The Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Southeast University Medical College, Jiangyin, China

Fang Yao Tang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hong Gu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Ophthalmology, Ningbo Medical Treatment Center Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo, China

Pancy O. S. Tam

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Li Jia Chen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Mårten E. Brelén

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Chi Pui Pang

dr.zhaochen@gmail.com (CZ); cppang@cuhk.edu.hk (CP)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Chen Zhao

dr.zhaochen@gmail.com (CZ); cppang@cuhk.edu.hk (CP)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP CZ. Performed the experiments: XC SR. Analyzed the data: XC SR QX FT YL HG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT LC MB. Wrote the paper: XC SR CP CZ.