About the Authors

Kang-Yi Su

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center of Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Genome and systems Biology Degree Program, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Jeng-Sen Tseng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Keng-Mao Liao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genome and systems Biology Degree Program, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsung-Ying Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kun-Chieh Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuo-Hsuan Hsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Pan-Chyr Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sung-Liang Yu

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center of Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology and Graduate Institute of Pathology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for Optoelectronic Biomedicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Gee-Chen Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

august@vghtc.gov.tw

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.