About the Authors

Su Mi Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Su Mi Lee, SeungHee Yang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea

SeungHee Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Su Mi Lee, SeungHee Yang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Ran-hui Cha

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Myounghee Kim

Affiliation Department of Dental Hygiene, College of Health Science, Eulji University, Seongnam, Korea

Jung Nam An

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Jin Ho Paik

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

Dong Ki Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Shin-Wook Kang

Affiliation Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Brain Korea 21 and Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Chun Soo Lim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Yon Su Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Jung Pyo Lee

nephrolee@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SML SHY YSK JPL. Performed the experiments: SML SHY. Analyzed the data: SML RC MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DKK SWK YSK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SML SHY JPL. Reviewed the kidney histopathology: JHP. Collected data: SML JNA CSL.