About the Authors

Hyeon-Jong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeon-Jong Yang, Hwa-Jung Kim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Center, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Hwa-Jung Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyeon-Jong Yang, Hwa-Jung Kim

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Asan Cancer Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jinho Yu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Childhood Asthma Atopy Center, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Eun Lee

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Childhood Asthma Atopy Center, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Research Center for Standardization of Allergic Diseases, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Young-Ho Jung

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Childhood Asthma Atopy Center, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Research Center for Standardization of Allergic Diseases, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Hyung-Young Kim

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Childhood Asthma Atopy Center, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Research Center for Standardization of Allergic Diseases, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ju-Hee Seo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Korean Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Geun-Yong Kwon

Affiliation Division of Epidemic Intelligence Service, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea

Ji-Hyuk Park

Affiliation Division of Epidemic Intelligence Service, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea

Jin Gwack

Affiliation Division of Epidemic Intelligence Service, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea

Seung-Ki Youn

Affiliation Division of Epidemic Intelligence Service, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea

Jun-Wook Kwon

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea

Byung-Yool Jun

Affiliations Division of Epidemic Intelligence Service, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea, Center for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, Korea

Kyung Won Kim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Allergy, Biomolecule Secretion Research Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kangmo Ahn

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Soo-Young Lee

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Ajou University Hospital, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

June-Dong Park

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ji-Won Kwon

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul University College of Medicine, Seungnam, Korea

Byoung-Ju Kim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital, University of Inje College of Medicine, Busan, Korea

Moo-Song Lee

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Asan Cancer Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kyung-Hyun Do

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Se-Jin Jang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Bok-Yang Pyun

bypyun@schmc.ac.kr (BYP); sjhong@amc.seoul.kr (SJH)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Center, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Soo-Jong Hong

bypyun@schmc.ac.kr (BYP); sjhong@amc.seoul.kr (SJH)

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Childhood Asthma Atopy Center, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Research Center for Standardization of Allergic Diseases, Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY H-JK BP SH KK KA SL JDP ML KD SJ. Performed the experiments: HY HK BP SH JY EL YJ H-YK JS Ji-Won Kwon BK. Analyzed the data: BP SH GK JDP JG SY Jun-Wook Kwon BJ KK KA SL J-HP ML KD SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY HK BP SH GK J-HP JG SY Jun-Wook Kwon BJ JY EL YJ H-YK JS Ji-Won Kwon BK KK KA SL J-HP ML KD SJ. Wrote the paper: HY SH KK KA SL JDP ML KD SJ.