1. Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , Keelung , Taiwan
2. College of Medicine, Chang Gung University , Taoyuan , Taiwan
3. Institute of Statistics, National Tsing-Hua University , Hsinchu , Taiwan
4. Kidney Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , Linkuo , Taiwan
5. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, MD , USA
6. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton, FL , USA
7. Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University , Taipei , Taiwan
8. Advanced Immunology Laboratory, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , Linkuo , Taiwan
9. Whole-Genome Research Core Laboratory of Human Diseases, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , Keelung , Taiwan