About the Authors

Ching-Fen Yang

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiang-Ling Ho

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Chieh Lin

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Yi Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Yi Hsu, Donald Ming-Tak Ho

cyhsu@vghtpe.gov.tw (CYH); mtho@vghtpe.gov.tw (DMH)

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Donald Ming-Tak Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Yi Hsu, Donald Ming-Tak Ho

cyhsu@vghtpe.gov.tw (CYH); mtho@vghtpe.gov.tw (DMH)

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CYH DMH. Data curation: CYH DMH. Formal analysis: CYH. Funding acquisition: CYH DMH. Investigation: CFY HLH CYH DMH. Methodology: HLH CYH DMH. Project administration: HLH CYH DMH. Resources: SCL CYH DMH. Supervision: DMH. Validation: HLH CYH DMH. Visualization: CFY HLH CYH. Writing – original draft: CFY HLH CYH. Writing – review & editing: CYH DMH.