About the Authors

Hsiao-Yun Tai

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiao-Yun Tai, Jia-Kai Zhou, Sheh-Yi Sheu

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jia-Kai Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiao-Yun Tai, Jia-Kai Zhou, Sheh-Yi Sheu

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hong Chou

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming F. Tam

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yu-Sen Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Sheh-Yi Sheu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiao-Yun Tai, Jia-Kai Zhou, Sheh-Yi Sheu

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Horng-Der Shen

hdshen@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYT JKZ SYS HDS. Performed the experiments: HYT JKZ HC YSC. Analyzed the data: HYT JKZ HC MFT SYS HDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYT JKZ SYS. Wrote the paper: HDS MFT.