About the Authors

Chun-San Tai

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-San Tai, Yan-Ren Lin

Affiliations Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Program of Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Yan-Ren Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-San Tai, Yan-Ren Lin

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Tsung-Han Teng

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Ping-Yi Lin

Affiliations Transplant Medicine & Surgery Research Centre, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Siang-Jyun Tu

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chih-Hung Chou

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Ya-Rong Huang

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Wei-Chih Huang

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Shun-Long Weng

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsien-Da Huang

wenurea@yahoo.com.tw (WLC); ylchen.cch@gmail.com (YLC); bryan@mail.nctu.edu.tw (HDH)

Affiliations Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Yao-Li Chen

wenurea@yahoo.com.tw (WLC); ylchen.cch@gmail.com (YLC); bryan@mail.nctu.edu.tw (HDH)

Affiliations School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of General Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Wen Liang Chen

wenurea@yahoo.com.tw (WLC); ylchen.cch@gmail.com (YLC); bryan@mail.nctu.edu.tw (HDH)

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CST YRL HDH YLC WLC. Data curation: CST SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH WLC. Formal analysis: CST YRL THT PYL SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH YLC WLC. Funding acquisition: YRL SLW. Investigation: CST YRL THT PYL SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH YLC WLC. Methodology: CST CHC WLC HDH. Project administration: THT CHC SLW YLC HDH WLC. Resources: THT CHC SLW YLC HDH WLC. Software: CST SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH WLC. Supervision: CHC YLC HDH WLC. Validation: CST YRL THT PYL SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH YLC WLC. Visualization: CST YRL THT PYL SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH YLC WLC. Writing – original draft: CST YRL PYL CHC HDH YLC WLC. Writing – review & editing: CST YRL THT PYL SJT CHC YRH WCH SLW HDH YLC WLC.