About the Authors

Kwang-Sook Woo

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

Byoung-Gwon Kim

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

Jae-Lim Choi

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

Bo-Ram Kim

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

Kyeong-Hee Kim

progreen@dau.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW KK. Performed the experiments: JC Bo-Ram Kim KW. Analyzed the data: Byoung-Gwon Kim KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC Bo_Ram Kim Byoung-Gwon Kim. Wrote the paper: KK.