About the Authors

Bong Jik Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Bong Jik Kim, Ah Reum Kim

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ah Reum Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Bong Jik Kim, Ah Reum Kim

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Chung Lee

Affiliations Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

So Young Kim

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Nayoung K. D. Kim

Affiliation Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Mun Young Chang

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jihye Rhee

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Mi-Hyun Park

Affiliation Division of Intractable Diseases, Center for Biomedical Sciences, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea

Soo Kyung Koo

Affiliation Division of Intractable Diseases, Center for Biomedical Sciences, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea

Min Young Kim

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Jin Hee Han

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Seung-ha Oh

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Woong-Yang Park

Affiliations Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

Byung Yoon Choi

choiby2010@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BJK BYC. Data curation: ARK CL SYK NKK MYC JR MHP SKK MYK JHH. Formal analysis: BJK ARK BYC CL NKK WYP. Funding acquisition: BYC. Investigation: BJK ARK CL NKK MYC JR MHP SKK MYK JHH. Methodology: BJK ARK BYC. Project administration: ARK MYK JHH. Resources: ARK CL MHP SKK MYK JHH. Software: ARK. Supervision: SHO WYP BYC. Validation: ARK CL. Visualization: BJK ARK JHH. Writing – original draft: BJK ARK BYC. Writing – review & editing: BJK SHO WYP BYC.