About the Authors

Hye Eun Yoon

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, Incheon, Korea

Sung Jun Kim

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, Incheon, Korea

Hyeon Seok Hwang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Sungjin Chung

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Chul Woo Yang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Seok Joon Shin

imkidney@catholic.ac.kr

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, Incheon, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HEY. Performed the experiments: HEY. Analyzed the data: HEY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HEY SJK HSH SC CWY SJS. Wrote the paper: HEY SJS.