About the Authors

Yen-Ching Chen

karenchen@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Research Center for Genes, Environment and Human Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ping-Keung Yip

Affiliations Center of Neurological Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ling Huang

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu Sun

Affiliation Department of Neurology, En Chu Kong Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Li Wen

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, En Chu Kong Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Min Chu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ta-Fu Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCC JHC. Performed the experiments: YLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHC PKY TFC YS LLW YMC. Wrote the paper: YCC.