About the Authors

Ruo-Chiau Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruo-Chiau Wang, Chien-Yu Huang, Tai-Long Pan

Affiliation Tissue Bank, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Chien-Yu Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruo-Chiau Wang, Chien-Yu Huang, Tai-Long Pan

Affiliations Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurosurgery, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tai-Long Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruo-Chiau Wang, Chien-Yu Huang, Tai-Long Pan

Affiliations School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Industry of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Liver Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Wei-Yu Chen

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Te Ho

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsan-Zon Liu

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Jia Chang

r5424012@tmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Translational Research Laboratory, Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCW CYH TLP TZP WYC YJC. Performed the experiments: RCW CYH TLP WYC TZL YJC. Analyzed the data: RCW CYH TLP WYC TZL YJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCW CYH TLP WYC TZL YJC. Wrote the paper: RCW CYH CTH TZL YJC.