AREG and myopia: IL-6 transcription has been shown to be regulated by a number of factors, including steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, TNF-α, interferon-γ, Il-1b, epidermal growth factor, and amphiregulin (Luo and Zheng, 2016; Bersinger et al., 2011; Lisi et al., 2010, Mahtouk et al., 2005), and some of these mediators have been implicated in myopia development (Dong et al., 2019; Dong et al., 2020; Ding et al., 2018; Gong et al., 2015).