About the Authors

Wook Kim

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wookkim@dankook.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea

Tag-Keun Yoo

Affiliation Department of Urology, Eulji Medical Center, Eulji University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sung-Joo Kim

Affiliation Research Institute of Molecular Genetics, Catholic Research Institutes of Medical Sciences, Seoul, Korea

Dong-Jik Shin

Affiliation Cardiovascular Genome Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Chris Tyler-Smith

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kindgom

Han-Jun Jin

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea

Kyoung-Don Kwak

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea

Eun-Tak Kim

Affiliation Department of Urology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Yoon-Sun Bae

Affiliation Cardiovascular Genome Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT WK DS. Performed the experiments: DS HJ KK EK YB. Analyzed the data: CT WK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK TY SK. Wrote the paper: CT WK.