About the Authors

Whi-An Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Whi-An Kwon, Sung Han Kim

Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, Wonkwang University Sanbon Hospital, Gunpo, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Sung Han Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Whi-An Kwon, Sung Han Kim

Affiliation Center for Prostate Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Sohee Kim

Affiliation Department of Biometric Research, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Jae Young Joung

Affiliation Center for Prostate Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Jinsoo Chung

Affiliation Center for Prostate Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Kang Hyun Lee

Affiliation Center for Prostate Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Sang-Jin Lee

Affiliation Genitourinary Cancer Branch, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Ho Kyung Seo

seohk@ncc.re.kr

Affiliation Center for Prostate Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHK HKS. Performed the experiments: SHK WK. Analyzed the data: SK SJL HKS JYJ JC KHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK SJL. Wrote the paper: SHK HKS. Contributed to the writing of the revised manuscript: JYJ JC KHL.