About the Authors

Ji Won Min

Affiliations Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Kyoung Woon Kim

Affiliation Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Bo-Mi Kim

Affiliation Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Kyoung Chan Doh

Affiliation Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Min Seok Choi

Affiliation Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Bum Soon Choi

Affiliations Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Cheol Whee Park

Affiliations Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Chul Woo Yang

Affiliations Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Yong-Soo Kim

Affiliations Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Eun-Jee Oh

Contributed equally to this work with: Eun-Jee Oh, Byung Ha Chung

chungbh@catholic.ac.kr (BHC); ejoh@catholic.ac.kr (EJO)

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Byung Ha Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Eun-Jee Oh, Byung Ha Chung

chungbh@catholic.ac.kr (BHC); ejoh@catholic.ac.kr (EJO)

Affiliations Transplant research center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JWM BHC. Data curation: JWM BHC EJO. Formal analysis: KWK BMK KCD. Funding acquisition: BHC CWY. Investigation: MSC. Methodology: BHC EJO. Project administration: BHC. Resources: BSC CWP CWY YSK. Supervision: BHC EJO. Validation: EJO. Visualization: JWM BHC. Writing – original draft: JWM BHC. Writing – review & editing: JWM.