About the Authors
- Hong Chou
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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
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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
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- Hsiao-Yun Tai
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Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- Ming F. Tam
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Yu-Sen Chen
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Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- Horng-Der Shen
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* E-mail: 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.