About the Authors

Hsei-Wei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsei-Wei Wang, Shu-Han Su

‡ HWW and SHS are first authors on this work.

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, VGH-YM Genome Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Han Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsei-Wei Wang, Shu-Han Su

‡ HWW and SHS are first authors on this work.

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Program in Molecular Medicine, National Yang-Ming University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Li Wang

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Ting Chang

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ko-Hsun Liao

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-Hao Lo

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ya-Lin Chiu

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsung-Han Hsieh

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tse-Shun Huang

Affiliation Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Chin-Sheng Lin

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

Shu-Meng Cheng

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

Cheng-Chung Cheng

chengcc@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HWW CCC. Performed the experiments: SHS YLW KHL HHL YLC THH. Analyzed the data: SHS YLW STC TSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSL SMC CCC. Wrote the paper: SHS HWW.