About the Authors
- Shiaw-Wei Tyan
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Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Authority
- Wen-Hung Kuo
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Authority
- Chun-Kai Huang
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Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Authority
- Chi-Chun Pan
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Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Authority
- Jin-Yuh Shew
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Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Authority
- King-Jen Chang
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* E-mail: kingjen@ntu.edu.tw (K-JC); elee@uci.edu (EY-HPL); whlee@uci.edu (W-HL)
Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Authority
- Eva Y.-H. P. Lee
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* E-mail: kingjen@ntu.edu.tw (K-JC); elee@uci.edu (EY-HPL); whlee@uci.edu (W-HL)
Affiliations Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Authority, Department of Development and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Wen-Hwa Lee
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* E-mail: kingjen@ntu.edu.tw (K-JC); elee@uci.edu (EY-HPL); whlee@uci.edu (W-HL)
Affiliations Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Authority, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Based on University of California Irvine policy, WHL and EL declare that they have financial interests of a biotech company, GeneTex, which distributes research reagents globally and owns stock from Schering-Plough, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, like any stockholder. WHL is on the board of directors, and EL is a consultant. GeneTex did not support this work in any way. These data and material will be distributed freely following the policies of PLoS ONE. It is the authors' recognition that these financial interests could not generate any bias toward this work, and do not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: S-WT J-YS EY-HPL W-HL. Performed the experiments: S-WT C-KH C-CP. Analyzed the data: S-WT C-KH C-CP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-HK K-JC. Wrote the paper: S-WT EY-HPL W-HL.