About the Authors

Ta-Hsien Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ta-Hsien Lee, Tzong-Shoon Wu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tzong-Shoon Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ta-Hsien Lee, Tzong-Shoon Wu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ching-Ping Tseng

jtqiu@cgmh.org.tw (JTQ); ctseng@mail.cgu.edu.tw (CPT)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Jiantai Timothy Qiu

jtqiu@cgmh.org.tw (JTQ); ctseng@mail.cgu.edu.tw (CPT)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: THL CPT JTQ. Performed the experiments: THL. Analyzed the data: THL TSW CPT JTQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TSW CPT JTQ. Wrote the paper: THL TSW CPT JTQ.