About the Authors

Eun Jeong Won

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Soo Hyun Kim

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Seung Jung Kee

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Jong Hee Shin

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Soon Pal Suh

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Jong Yil Chai

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dong Wook Ryang

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Myung Geun Shin

mgshin@chonnam.ac.kr

Affiliations Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, Brain Korea 21 Plus Project, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, Environmental Health Center for Childhood Leukemia and Cancer, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MGS. Data curation: EJW MGS. Formal analysis: EJW. Funding acquisition: MGS. Investigation: EJW. Methodology: EJW MGS. Project administration: EJW. Resources: EJW SHK SJK. Supervision: JHS SPS DWR JYC. Validation: EJW. Visualization: EJW. Writing – original draft: EJW. Writing – review & editing: MGS SHK SJK.