About the Authors

Ami Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ami Yu, Sang Myung Woo

Current address: Korean Medicine Clinical Trial Center, Kyung Hee University Oriental Medicine Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Biometric Research Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Sang Myung Woo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ami Yu, Sang Myung Woo

Affiliation Center for Liver Cancer, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Jungnam Joo

Affiliation Biometric Research Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Hye-Ryung Yang

Current address: Center for Defense Acquisition, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Biometric Research Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Woo Jin Lee

Affiliation Center for Liver Cancer, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Sang-Jae Park

Affiliation Center for Liver Cancer, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Byung-Ho Nam

byunghonam@ncc.re.kr

Affiliation Biometric Research Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMW JJ WJL SJP BHN. Analyzed the data: AY HRY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJ HRY BHN. Wrote the paper: AY SMW JJ WJL SJP BHN.