About the Authors

Nam Hoon Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Nam Hoon Kim, Juneyoung Lee

‡ Yousung Park and Sin Gon Kim also contributed equally to this work. Nam Hoon Kim and Juneyoung Lee are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Juneyoung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Nam Hoon Kim, Juneyoung Lee

‡ Yousung Park and Sin Gon Kim also contributed equally to this work. Nam Hoon Kim and Juneyoung Lee are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Tae Joon Kim

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Nan Hee Kim

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kyung Mook Choi

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sei Hyun Baik

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Dong Seop Choi

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Rodica Pop-Busui

Affiliation Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Yousung Park

‡ Yousung Park and Sin Gon Kim also contributed equally to this work. Nam Hoon Kim and Juneyoung Lee are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Sin Gon Kim

k50367@korea.ac.kr

‡ Yousung Park and Sin Gon Kim also contributed equally to this work. Nam Hoon Kim and Juneyoung Lee are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YP SGK. Performed the experiments: Nam Hoon Kim JL TJK. Analyzed the data: Nam Hoon Kim JL TJK YP SGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Nam Hoon Kim JL TJK YP SGK. Wrote the paper: Nam Hoon Kim JL RPB YP SGK. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: Nam Hoon Kim JL TJK Nan Hee Kim KMC SHB DSC RPB YP SGK. Contributed to data interpretation and critical revision of the report: Nam Hoon Kim JL TJK Nan Hee Kim KMC SHB DSC RPB YP SGK.