About the Authors

Prapaporn Jungtrakoon

Contributed equally to this work with: Prapaporn Jungtrakoon, Nattachet Plengvidhya

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nattachet Plengvidhya

Contributed equally to this work with: Prapaporn Jungtrakoon, Nattachet Plengvidhya

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Watip Tangjittipokin

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sarin Chimnaronk

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Nakhonpathom, Thailand

Wanisa Salaemae

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nalinee Chongjaroen

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Kanjana Chanprasert

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jatuporn Sujjitjoon

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Chatchawan Srisawat

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Pa-thai Yenchitsomanus

grpye@mahidol.ac.th

Affiliation Division of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJ NP CS PY. Performed the experiments: PJ WT WS NC KC JS. Analyzed the data: PJ NP SC PY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WT. Wrote the paper: PJ NP SC PY. Collected clinical data: NP.