About the Authors

Ray-Hwang Yuan

Affiliations Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

Ko-Tung Chang

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Yu-Ling Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Pathology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hey-Chi Hsu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Pathology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Huang Lee

Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Lin Lai

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

Yung-Ming Jeng

d83409009@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Pathology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHY KTC HCH YMJ. Performed the experiments: KTC PLL YLC. Analyzed the data: RHY KTC HCH PHL PLL YLC YMJ. Wrote the paper: RHY YMJ.