About the Authors

Zhongqiang Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongqiang Zhou, Tingting Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Henan Eye Institute, Henan Eye Hospital, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Tingting Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongqiang Zhou, Tingting Chen

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

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, The Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Mengrui Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Ling Jin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Yongyi Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Shangji Chen

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Guangming Eye Hospital, Yangjiang, People’s Republic of China

Congyao Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Guoshan Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Qilin Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Qiaoming Deng

Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Yubo Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Ian G. Morgan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Mingguang He

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Yizhi Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

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

Nathan Congdon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ncongdon1@gmail.com

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, ORBIS International, New York, NY, United States of America, Translational Research for Equitable Eye care, Centre for Public Health, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests. None of the authors has any financial interest in the techniques or devices described in this manuscript. The funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of this research.