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Kuan-Yu Chen1, Chin-Fu Hsiao, Gee-Chen Chang

  • 1*Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; †Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan; ‡Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; §Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ‖Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan; ¶Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; #Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, and Taipei Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; **Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; ††National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan; ‡‡Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan; §§Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; ‖‖Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; ¶¶Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; and ##Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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