About the Authors

Lathika Mohanraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Lathika Mohanraj, Ho-Seong Kim, Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Ho-Seong Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Lathika Mohanraj, Ho-Seong Kim, Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Wei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lathika Mohanraj, Ho-Seong Kim, Wei Li

Affiliation Biocure Pharma LLC, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Qing Cai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Ki Eun Kim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, CHA University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Hye-Jung Shin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Yong-Jae Lee

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

Woo Jung Lee

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jung Hyun Kim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Youngman Oh

yoh@mcvh-vcu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Biocure Pharma LLC, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

YO is the founder of BioCure Pharma LLC and WL is an employee of BioCure Pharma LLC. The authors declare that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO LM HK. Performed the experiments: LM HK QC WL KK HS YL WL JK. Analyzed the data: YO LM HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YO HK. Wrote the paper: YO LM HK.