About the Authors

Beom Kyung Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Beom Kyung Kim, Seung Up Kim

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

Seung Up Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Beom Kyung Kim, Seung Up Kim

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

Hyon Suk Kim

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

Jun Yong Park

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

Sang Hoon Ahn

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

Chae Yoon Chon

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

In Rae Cho

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

Dong-Hoo Joh

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

Young Nyun Park

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

Kwang-Hyub Han

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

Do Young Kim

dyk1025@yuhs.ac

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BKK SUK DYK. Performed the experiments: JYP SHA CYC YNP. Analyzed the data: BKK SUK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HSK JYP SHA CYC IRC DHJ YNP KHH DYK. Wrote the paper: BKK SUK.