About the Authors

Yu-Mi Lee

Affiliation Department of Preventative Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Se-A Kim

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, BK21 Plus KNU Biomedical Convergence Program, Department of Biomedical Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

In-Kyu Lee

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Jung-Guk Kim

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Keun-Gyu Park

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Ji-Yun Jeong

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Gumi Hospital, Gumi, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Jae-Han Jeon

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Ji-Yeon Shin

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Eulji University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Duk-Hee Lee

lee_dh@knu.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Preventative Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Department of Biomedical Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, BK21 Plus KNU Biomedical Convergence Program, Department of Biomedical Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHL. Performed the experiments: SAK JYS. Analyzed the data: YML. Wrote the paper: YML DHL. Reviewed the manuscript and contributed to the discussion: IKL KGP JYJ JHJ JYS JGK.