About the Authors

Jyh-Hwa Kau

Contributed equally to this work with: Jyh-Hwa Kau, Der-Shan Sun

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Der-Shan Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Jyh-Hwa Kau, Der-Shan Sun

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Institute of Medical Science, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Hsin-Hsien Huang

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Show Wong

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hung-Chi Lin

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Hou Chang

hhchang@mail.tcu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Institute of Medical Science, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHK DSS HHH HHC. Performed the experiments: JHK HHH MSW. Analyzed the data: JHK MSW HHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHK DSS MSW HCL HHC. Wrote the paper: HHC.