About the Authors

Yao-Ping Lin

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Yu Yang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen-Chung Liao

Affiliation Proteomics Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Chung Yu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chin-Wen Chi

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chao-Hsiung Lin

chlin2@ym.edu.tw

Affiliations Proteomics Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genomic Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPL CWC CHL. Performed the experiments: YPL CYY WCY. Analyzed the data: YPL CYY CCL WCY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPL CCL CWC CHL. Wrote the paper: YPL.