About the Authors

Tai-Kuang Chao

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan

Tien-Shuo Huang

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of medicine, College of medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Ping Liao

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of medicine, College of medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Rui-Lan Huang

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of medicine, College of medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Hsuan Su

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliations Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of medicine, College of medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hueng-Yuan Shen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET center, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-Cheng Lai

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of medicine, College of medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Chi Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yuchitsgh@ndmctsgh.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Laboratory of Epigenetics and Cancer Stem Cells, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.