About the Authors

Tzu-Hsuan Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Tzu-Hsuan Wong, Hung-An Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hung-An Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tzu-Hsuan Wong, Hung-An Chen

Affiliation Department of Allergy-Immunology-Rheumatology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Rung-Jiun Gau

Affiliation Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Tainan, Taiwan

Jeng-Hsien Yen

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jau-Ling Suen

jlsuen@kmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JLS RJG JHY. Data curation: THW JLS. Formal analysis: THW. Funding acquisition: JLS HAC. Investigation: THW RJG. Methodology: THW. Supervision: JLS. Writing – original draft: THW HAC RJG. Writing – review & editing: JLS.