About the Authors

Yung-Ting Kuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Ting Kuo, Yen-Lin Liu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Lin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Ting Kuo, Yen-Lin Liu

Affiliations Degree Program of Translational Medicine, Academia Sinica–National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Bamodu Oluwaseun Adebayo

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

Ping-Hsiao Shih

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Hwa Lee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Liang-Shun Wang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Medical University- Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yung-Feng Liao

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Ming Hsu

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

Chi-Tai Yeh

ctyeh@s.tmu.edu.tw (CTY); m513092004@s.tmu.edu.tw (CML)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Min Lin

ctyeh@s.tmu.edu.tw (CTY); m513092004@s.tmu.edu.tw (CML)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

All authors are working for either university or hospitals. The authors claim that they do not have any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the work submitted that could inappropriately influence the work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTY CML. Performed the experiments: YTK YLL. Analyzed the data: BOA PHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YFL WHL LSW WMH. Wrote the paper: YTK YLL.