About the Authors

Cheng-Han Wu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Ko-Jen Li

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Li Yu

Affiliations Division of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chang-Youh Tsai

Affiliation Section of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Song-Chou Hsieh

hsiehsc@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLY CYT SCH. Performed the experiments: CHW KJL. Analyzed the data: CHW KJL CLY CYT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLY SCH. Wrote the paper: CHW CLY SCH.