About the Authors

Zi-Han Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-Han Tian, Jueng-Tsueng Weng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Jueng-Tsueng Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-Han Tian, Jueng-Tsueng Weng

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chung Shan Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Jane Shih

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Medical Laboratory, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

An-Ci Siao

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tsai-Yun Chan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yi-Wei Tsuei

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

ykao@cc.ncu.edu.tw (YHK); er03@aftygh.gov.tw (YWT)

Affiliation Department of Emergency, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Yow-Chii Kuo

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Taiwan Landseed Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Tsu-Shing Wang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yung-Hsi Kao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

ykao@cc.ncu.edu.tw (YHK); er03@aftygh.gov.tw (YWT)

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

Landseed General Hospital provided support in the form of salaries for author YCK. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.