Chou Chen-kung, professor at Yang Ming University's Institute of Genetics, explains that chromosome 4 was selected because of research by National Taiwan University professor of internal medicine Chen Pei-she, who found that chromosome-4 genetic defects and aberrations were particularly common among victims of liver cancer-Taiwan's leading cause of death by cancer.
陽明大學遺傳學研究所教授周成功指出，當初之所以選擇第四號染色體，是因為台大內科教授陳培哲研究發現，肝癌患者第四號染色體常有缺陷或變異，而肝癌又是台灣癌症第一大死因，於是選擇破解第四號染色體。