About the Authors

Chien-Ming Lin

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Ling Huang

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Fang-Ying Chu

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hueng-Chuen Fan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-An Chen

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Der-Ming Chu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Wei Wu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Ching Wang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Liang Chen

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Hua Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Shih-Hua Lin, Shinn-Ying Ho

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shinn-Ying Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Shih-Hua Lin, Shinn-Ying Ho

syho@mail.nctu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CML SYH SHL. Performed the experiments: HCF LWW DMC CCW. Analyzed the data: HLH FYC HAC WLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CML. Wrote the paper: CML.