About the Authors

Seung Up Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Up Kim, Ji Hoon Lee

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Ji Hoon Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Up Kim, Ji Hoon Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Do Young Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Sang Hoon Ahn

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea, Brain Korea 21 Project of Medical Science, Seoul, Korea

Kyu Sik Jung

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Eun Hee Choi

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Young Nyun Park

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Brain Korea 21 Project of Medical Science, Seoul, Korea

Kwang-Hyub Han

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea, Brain Korea 21 Project of Medical Science, Seoul, Korea

Chae Yoon Chon

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Jun Yong Park

DRPJY@yuhs.ac

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SUK JHL JYP. Analyzed the data: SUK JHL EHC JYP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YNP. Wrote the paper: SUK JHL DYK SHA KHH CYC KSJ JYP.