About the Authors

Wenya Huang

Roles Methodology

‡ WH and CLH are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chung-Liang Ho

Roles Methodology

‡ WH and CLH are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chung-Ta Lee

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wan-Li Chen

Roles Validation

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Shu-Ching Yang

Roles Validation

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Nan-Haw Chow

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yi-Lin Chen

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

emerald@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.