About the Authors

Hye-Ran Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye-Ran Kim, Hyun-Jung Choi

Affiliation Brain Korea 21 Project, Center for Biomedical Human Resources, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Hyun-Jung Choi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye-Ran Kim, Hyun-Jung Choi

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Yeo-Kyeoung Kim

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Genome Research Center for Hematopoietic Disease, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Hyeoung-Joon Kim

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Genome Research Center for Hematopoietic Disease, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Jong-Hee Shin

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Soon-Pal Suh

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Dong-Wook Ryang

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Myung-Geun Shin

mgshin@chonnam.ac.kr

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Supervised research: JHS SPS DWR. Conceived and designed the experiments: MGS. Performed the experiments: HRK HJC. Analyzed the data: YKK HJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGS. Wrote the paper: MGS.