About the Authors

Hae-Jin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hae-Jin Hu, Sin-Gi Park

Affiliation TheragenEtex Bio Institute Inc., Suwon, Republic of Korea

Sin-Gi Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Hae-Jin Hu, Sin-Gi Park

Affiliation TheragenEtex Bio Institute Inc., Suwon, Republic of Korea

Han Byul Jang

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea

Min-Gyu Choi

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Gangnam, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Kyung-Hee Park

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Jae Heon Kang

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Obesity Research Institute, Seoul Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sang Ick Park

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea

Hye-Ja Lee

skcho38@korea.kr (SHC); hyejalee@yahoo.co.kr (HJL)

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea

Seung-Hak Cho

skcho38@korea.kr (SHC); hyejalee@yahoo.co.kr (HJL)

Affiliation Division of Enteric Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, Korea National Institute of Health, Heungdeok-Gu, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Authors Hae-Jin Hu and Sin-Gi Park are employed by TheragenEtex Bio Institute Inc which also performed bioinformatics analyses for this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHC HJL. Performed the experiments: MGC KHP JHK. Analyzed the data: SHC HJH SGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHC HBJ SIP. Wrote the paper: SHC HJH.