About the Authors

Gwon-Soo Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Gwon-Soo Jung, Jae-Han Jeon

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Jae-Han Jeon

Contributed equally to this work with: Gwon-Soo Jung, Jae-Han Jeon

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Yun-A Jung

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Yeon-Kyung Choi

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Hye-Soon Kim

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Jung-Guk Kim

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Keun-Gyu Park

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Mi-Kyung Kim

leei@knu.ac.kr (IKL); mdkmk@dsmc.or.kr (MKK)

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

In-Kyu Lee

leei@knu.ac.kr (IKL); mdkmk@dsmc.or.kr (MKK)

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKK. Performed the experiments: GSJ YAJ. Analyzed the data: GSJ YAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GSJ YAJ. Wrote the paper: GSJ JHJ. Contributed to discussion, and reviewed/edited the manuscript: YKC HSK JGK KGP MKK IKL.