About the Authors

Hyeyoung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeyoung Lee, Ki Hyun Park

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ HYL and KHP are co-first authors on this work. BHC and BJO also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, SamKwang Medical Laboratories, Seoul, Korea

Ki Hyun Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeyoung Lee, Ki Hyun Park

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ HYL and KHP are co-first authors on this work. BHC and BJO also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Ji Hyeong Ryu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

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

Ae-Ran Choi

Roles Formal analysis

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

Ji Hyun Yu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

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

Jihyang Lim

Roles Methodology

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

Kyungja Han

Roles Resources

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

Sang Il Kim

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Division of Infection, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Chul Woo Yang

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

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

Byung Ha Chung

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

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

‡ HYL and KHP are co-first authors on this work. BHC and BJO also contributed equally to this work.

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

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

‡ HYL and KHP are co-first authors on this work. BHC and BJO also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

Commercial affiliation SamKwang Medical Laboratories had no role with any other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products, etc. This does not alter out adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All authors declare all potential competing interests for the purposes of transparency.