About the Authors

Pei-Lung Chen

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Cathy Shen-Jang Fann

Contributed equally to this work with: Cathy Shen-Jang Fann, Chen-Chung Chu

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen-Chung Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cathy Shen-Jang Fann, Chen-Chung Chu

Affiliation Transfusion Medicine Laboratory, Medical Research Department, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Ching Chang

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Su-Wei Chang

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Yi Hsieh

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Marie Lin

Affiliation Transfusion Medicine Laboratory, Medical Research Department, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Shiung Yang

wsyang@ntu.edu.tw (W-SY); tienchunchang@ntu.edu.tw (T-CC)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tien-Chun Chang

wsyang@ntu.edu.tw (W-SY); tienchunchang@ntu.edu.tw (T-CC)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P-LC CS-JF W-SY T-CC. Performed the experiments: P-LC C-C Chu T-CC. Analyzed the data: P-LC CS-JF C-C Chu C-C Chang H-YH S-WC ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS-JF C-C Chu ML W-SY. Wrote the paper: P-LC CS-JF W-SY T-CC.