About the Authors

Ding-Ping Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ding-Ping Chen, Ching-Ping Tseng

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Ching-Ping Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ding-Ping Chen, Ching-Ping Tseng

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Wei-Ting Wang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Chien-Feng Sun

suncgj@adm.cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DPC CPT CFS. Performed the experiments: WTW. Analyzed the data: DPC CPT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DPC CPT WTW. Wrote the paper: DPC CPT.