About the Authors

Yung-Li Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Li Yang, Ching-Tzu Yen

Affiliations Departments of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Departments of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Tzu Yen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Li Yang, Ching-Tzu Yen

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen-Hsueh Pai

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsuan-Yu Chen

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Sung-Liang Yu

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Yu Lin

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Yi Hu

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shiann-Tarng Jou

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Dong-Tsamn Lin

Affiliations Departments of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Departments of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Rung Lin

shurung@cycu.edu.tw (SRL); mtshuwha@ntu.edu.tw (SWL)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Bioscience Technology, College of Science, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Center for Nanotechnology and Center for Biomedical Technology, College of Science, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shu-Wha Lin

shurung@cycu.edu.tw (SRL); mtshuwha@ntu.edu.tw (SWL)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRL SWL. Performed the experiments: YLY CTY CHP. Analyzed the data: HYC SLY CYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYH STJ DTL. Wrote the paper: YLY CTY.