About the Authors

Qianli Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Qianli Meng, Haike Guo

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Eye Institute, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Haike Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Qianli Meng, Haike Guo

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Eye Institute, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Shengping Hou

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory Of Ophthalmology, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Zhengxuan Jiang

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory Of Ophthalmology, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Aize Kijlstra

Affiliation Eye Research Institute Maastricht, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Peizeng Yang

peizengycum@126.com

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory Of Ophthalmology, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PY QM HG. Performed the experiments: QM HG. Analyzed the data: QM HG SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PY SH ZJ. Wrote the paper: QM HG PY AK.