About the Authors

Shang-Gin Wu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

Yih-Leong Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yih-Leong Chang, Jou-Wei Lin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jou-Wei Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yih-Leong Chang, Jou-Wei Lin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

Chen-Tu Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsuan-Yu Chen

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Meng-Feng Tsai

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Da-Yeh University, Chang-Hua, Taiwan

Yung-Chie Lee

Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chong-Jen Yu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jin-Yuan Shih

jyshih@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGW JYS MFT CJY. Performed the experiments: YCL YLC CTW. Analyzed the data: JWL HYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWL HYC. Wrote the paper: SGW JYS.