About the Authors

Zhao-Yang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao-Yang Wang, Keke Zhao

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Departments of Molecular Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Keke Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao-Yang Wang, Keke Zhao

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jingwei Zheng

Affiliation Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Brian Rossmiller

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Cristhian Ildefonso

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Manas Biswal

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Pei-quan Zhao

zhaokekewzy@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYW PQZ KKZ. Performed the experiments: KKZ ZYW. Analyzed the data: JZ ZYW KKZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BR CI MB. Wrote the paper: ZYW BR CI MB.