About the Authors

Hong Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Chou, Keh-Gong Wu

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Keh-Gong Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Chou, Keh-Gong Wu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Chang-Ching Yeh

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Hsiao-Yun Tai

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Ming F. Tam

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yu-Sen Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Horng-Der Shen

hdshen@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC KGW CCY HDS. Performed the experiments: HC HYT YSC. Analyzed the data: HC KGW HYT CCY HDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC KGW. Wrote the paper: HC KGW CCY MFT HDS.