About the Authors

Ju-Young Moon

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Young Moon, Jong Shin Woo

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jong Shin Woo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Young Moon, Jong Shin Woo

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jung-Woo Seo

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Arah Lee

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Dong Jin Kim

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yang-Gyun Kim

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Se-Yeun Kim

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kyung Hye Lee

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sung-Jig Lim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Xian Wu Cheng

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sang-Ho Lee

mylovekw@hanmail.net (WK); lshkidney@khu.ac.kr (SHL)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Weon Kim

mylovekw@hanmail.net (WK); lshkidney@khu.ac.kr (SHL)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYM JSW SHL WK. Performed the experiments: JYM JSW JWS AL DJK YGK SYK KHL SJL XC SHL WK. Analyzed the data: JYM JSW JWS KHL SJL XC SHL WK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWS AL DJK YGK SYK KHL SJL. Wrote the paper: JYM JSW JWS SJL WK XC.