About the Authors

Cheng Ji Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Ji Jin, Sung Hoon Yu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea, Department of Endocrinology, The ZhongShan Hospital, DaLian University, Dalian, China

Sung Hoon Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Ji Jin, Sung Hoon Yu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Hangang Sacred Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Xiao-Mei Wang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The ZhongShan Hospital, DaLian University, Dalian, China

Se Joon Woo

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Hyo Jin Park

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Hyun Chul Lee

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

Sung Hee Choi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Kyoung Min Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Jung Hee Kim

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

Kyong Soo Park

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

Hak Chul Jang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Soo Lim

limsoo@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJJ SHY SL. Performed the experiments: CJJ SHY SL. Analyzed the data: XW JHK SHC KMK KSP HCJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJJ SHY SJW HJP HCL. Wrote the paper: CJJ SHY SL. Designed the software used in analysis: SL.