About the Authors

Shiu-Huey Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiu-Huey Chou, Bor-Sheng Ko

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan

Bor-Sheng Ko

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiu-Huey Chou, Bor-Sheng Ko

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Cellular and Systemic Medicine, National Health Research Institute, MiaoLi County, Taiwan

Ji-Shain Chiou

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yueh-Chwen Hsu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Mong-Hsun Tsai

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Chiao Chiu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

I-Shing Yu

Affiliation Transgenic Mouse Models Core, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Wha Lin

Affiliation Transgenic Mouse Models Core, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-An Hou

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

Yi-Yi Kuo

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

Hsiu-Mei Lin

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

Ming-Fang Wu

Affiliation Animal Medicine Center, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Chien Chou

wchou@ntu.edu.tw (WCC); hftien@ntu.edu.tw (HFT)

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hwei-Fang Tien

wchou@ntu.edu.tw (WCC); hftien@ntu.edu.tw (HFT)

Affiliation Division of Hematology, 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: SHC BSK WCC HFT. Performed the experiments: JSC YCH YYK HML ISY SWL MFW. Analyzed the data: SHC WCC MHT YCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HAH. Wrote the paper: SHC WCC HFT.