About the Authors

Won Yong Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Yong Jung, Seul Gi Kwon, Minky Son, Eun Seok Cho

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, SeqGenesis, Daejeon, Korea

Seul Gi Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Yong Jung, Seul Gi Kwon, Minky Son, Eun Seok Cho

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Minky Son

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Yong Jung, Seul Gi Kwon, Minky Son, Eun Seok Cho

Affiliations Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Program), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center (PMBBRC), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

Eun Seok Cho

Contributed equally to this work with: Won Yong Jung, Seul Gi Kwon, Minky Son, Eun Seok Cho

Affiliations Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Suwon, Korea

Yuno Lee

Affiliations Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Program), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center (PMBBRC), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

Jae Hwan Kim

Affiliation Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Byeong-Woo Kim

Affiliation Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Program), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

Da Hye Park

Affiliation Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Jung Hye Hwang

Affiliation Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Tae Wan Kim

Affiliation Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Hwa Choon Park

Affiliation Da-San-Jong-Don Co. Ltd., Namwon, Korea

Beom Young Park

Affiliation National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Suwon, Korea

Jong-Soon Choi

Affiliations Division of Life Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea, Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Kwang Keun Cho

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Ki Hwa Chung

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Young Min Song

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Il Suk Kim

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Sang Keun Jin

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Doo Hwan Kim

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Seung-Won Lee

Affiliation SeqGenesis, Daejeon, Korea

Keun Woo Lee

Affiliations Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Program), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center (PMBBRC), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

Woo Young Bang

wybang@gntech.ac.kr (WYB); cwkim@gntech.ac.kr (CWK)

Affiliation Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Chul Wook Kim

wybang@gntech.ac.kr (WYB); cwkim@gntech.ac.kr (CWK)

Affiliations Department of Animal Resources Technology, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea, Swine Science and Technology Center, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict: Hwa Choon Park and both Won Yong Jung and Seung-Won Lee are employed by Da-San-Jong-Don Co. Ltd. and SeqGenesis, respectively. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Except for these three authors, the rest of the authors in this manuscript have declared that no conflict of interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWL WYB CWK. Performed the experiments: ESC SGK MS YL BWK DHP KKG TWK DHK SKJ ISK YMS KHC JHH JHK. Analyzed the data: BYP JSC WYB SWL WYJ KKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCP. Wrote the paper: WYB CWK.