About the Authors

Yi-Ying Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Ying Wu, Tzu-Chuan Huang

Affiliations Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tzu-Chuan Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Ying Wu, Tzu-Chuan Huang

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tsung-Neng Tsai

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jia-Hong Chen

Affiliations Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming-Shen Dai

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ping-Ying Chang

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ching-Liang Ho

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ren-Hua Ye

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tsai-Rong Chung

Affiliation National Institute of Cancer Research, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yeu-Chin Chen

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tsu-Yi Chao

10575@s.tmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Shuang-Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YYW TCH TYC. Performed the experiments: YYW TCH TNT. Analyzed the data: YYW TCH TRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHC MSD PYC CLH RHY YCC TYC. Wrote the paper: YYW TCH.