About the Authors
- Hae-Jin Hu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hae-Jin Hu, Sin-Gi Park
Affiliation TheragenEtex Bio Institute Inc., Suwon, Republic of Korea
- Sin-Gi Park
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hae-Jin Hu, Sin-Gi Park
Affiliation TheragenEtex Bio Institute Inc., Suwon, Republic of Korea
- Han Byul Jang
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Affiliation Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
- Min-Gyu Choi
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Gangnam, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Kyung-Hee Park
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
- Jae Heon Kang
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Obesity Research Institute, Seoul Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Sang Ick Park
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Affiliation Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
- Hye-Ja Lee
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* E-mail: 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
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* E-mail: 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.