About the Authors

Jongwook Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jongwook Yu, Pyung Chun Oh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Pyung Chun Oh

Contributed equally to this work with: Jongwook Yu, Pyung Chun Oh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Minsu Kim

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Jeonggeun Moon

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Yae Min Park

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Kyounghoon Lee

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Soon Yong Suh

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Seung Hwan Han

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Kyunghee Byun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Functional Cellular Networks Laboratory, Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Taehoon Ahn

Roles Investigation, Supervision

encore@gilhospital.com (TA); kangwch@gilhospital.com (WCK)

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Woong Chol Kang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

encore@gilhospital.com (TA); kangwch@gilhospital.com (WCK)

Affiliations Cardiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: This work was supported by research grant from the Dong-A Pharmaceutical Company, Republic of Korea. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.