About the Authors

Ren-Jun Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren-Jun Hsu, Jar-Yi Ho

Affiliations Biobank Management Center of Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Jar-Yi Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren-Jun Hsu, Jar-Yi Ho

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Tai-Lung Cha

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Divisions of Urology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Dah-Shyong Yu

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Divisions of Urology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Chieh-Lin Wu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Ping Huang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Pauling Chu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Ying-Hsin Chen

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Jiann-Torng Chen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Ping Yu

cpyupath@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Biobank Management Center of Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPY RJH JYH. Performed the experiments: RJH JYH CLW WPH. Analyzed the data: JYH CPY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLC DSY PLC YHC JTC. Wrote the paper: RJH JYH CPY.