About the Authors

Mi Sung Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Mi Sung Park, Beom Kyung Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Beom Kyung Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Mi Sung Park, Beom Kyung Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Jae Yoeun Cheong

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

Dong Joon Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea

Jun Yong Park

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Do Young Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Sang Hoon Ahn

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea, Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Science, Seoul, Korea

Kwang-Hyub Han

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea, Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Science, Seoul, Korea

Chae Yoon Chon

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Seung Up Kim

ksukorea@yuhs.ac

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors received funding from commercial sources, Sanofi-Aventis Korea and BioPredictive; this study was supported by the Yonsei Liver Blood Bank (YLBB) in part by a grant from Sanofi-Aventis Korea and BioPredictive kindly provided the complimentary service for calculation of FT score. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Furthermore, funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Patient management: JYP DYK SHA KHH CYC. Conceived and designed the experiments: MSP BKK SUK. Performed the experiments: MSP BKK SUK. Analyzed the data: MSP BKK JYC DJK SUK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSP BKK SUK. Wrote the paper: MSP BKK SUK.