About the Authors

Ryuk-Jun Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryuk-Jun Kwon, Yun Hak Kim

Affiliations Departments of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea, Gene & Therapy Research Center for Vessel-associated Diseases, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Yun Hak Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryuk-Jun Kwon, Yun Hak Kim

Affiliations Departments of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea, Gene & Therapy Research Center for Vessel-associated Diseases, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Dae Cheon Jeong

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Korea University, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Myoung-Eun Han

Affiliations Departments of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea, Gene & Therapy Research Center for Vessel-associated Diseases, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Ji-Young Kim

Affiliations Departments of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea, Gene & Therapy Research Center for Vessel-associated Diseases, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Liangwen Liu

Affiliations Departments of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea, Gene & Therapy Research Center for Vessel-associated Diseases, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Jin-Sup Jung

Affiliation Departments of Physiology, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Sae-Ock Oh

hedgehog@pusan.ac.kr

Affiliations Departments of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea, Gene & Therapy Research Center for Vessel-associated Diseases, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SOO RJK YHK. Formal analysis: RJK YHK DCJ. Funding acquisition: SOO. Investigation: RJK YHK DCJ MEH JYK LL JSJ SOO. Project administration: MEH. Supervision: SOO. Validation: RJK YHK. Writing – original draft: RJK YHK. Writing – review & editing: DCH MEH JYK LL JSJ SOO.