About the Authors

Cheng-Ping Yu

Affiliations Biobank Management Center of Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Jar-Yi Ho

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ting Huang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Tai-Lung Cha

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Divisions of Urology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Guang-Huan Sun

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Divisions of Urology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Dah-Shyong Yu

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Divisions of Urology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Fung-Wei Chang

Affiliations Biobank Management Center of Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Pin Chen

Affiliation Children's Endocrine and Genetic Disciplines, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Ren-Jun Hsu

hsurnai@gmail.com

Affiliations Biobank Management Center of Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPY RJH. Performed the experiments: YTH JYH RJH CPY SPC. Analyzed the data: RJH CPY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLC GHS FWC DSY. Wrote the paper: RJH CPY. Obtained permission for use of cell line: DS Yu AL.