About the Authors

Xiu-Feng Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu-Feng Huang, Ping Xiang

Affiliations Division of Ophthalmic Genetics, Laboratory for Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China, The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China

Ping Xiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu-Feng Huang, Ping Xiang

Affiliations Division of Ophthalmic Genetics, Laboratory for Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China, The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China

Jie Chen

Affiliation Center for Excellence in Low Vision and Visual Rehabilitation, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Dong-Jun Xing

Affiliations Division of Ophthalmic Genetics, Laboratory for Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China, The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China

Na Huang

Affiliations Division of Ophthalmic Genetics, Laboratory for Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China, The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China

Qingjie Min

Affiliation The Institute of Genomic Medicine, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Feng Gu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China

Yi Tong

Affiliation Fuzhou Southeastern Eye Hospital, Fuzhou, China

Chi-Pui Pang

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

Jia Qu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China

Zi-Bing Jin

jinzb@mail.eye.ac.cn

Affiliations Division of Ophthalmic Genetics, Laboratory for Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China, The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health P. R. China, Wenzhou, China, Center for Excellence in Low Vision and Visual Rehabilitation, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQ ZBJ. Performed the experiments: XFH PX JC DJX NH QM. Analyzed the data: XFH PX QM FG CPP ZBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JQ ZBJ CPP YT. Wrote the paper: XFH ZBJ.