1 Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
2 Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Sciences, Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
3 Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
4 Department of Surgery, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
5 Department of Applied Mathematics, Hanyang University (ERICA), Ansan, Republic of Korea.
6 Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
7 Division of Genome Research, Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea.
8 Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
9 Transplantation Research Institute, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
10 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gospel Hospital, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea.
11 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
12 Divison of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
13 Department of Surgery, Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
14 Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Received 29 September 2020. Revision received 17 November 2020.
Accepted 6 December 2020.
J.G.Y. and S.H.S. contributed equally to this article.
M.G.L. and J.B.P. jointly directed this study.
All investigators in the KOTRY study group are listed in the Acknowledgments section.
J.G.Y. was involved in performing the research, bioinformatics analysis and data interpretation, and writing of the article. S.H.S. was involved in performing the research, participant enrollment, and writing of the article. S.C., Y.J.K., S.M., and B.-J.K. were involved in bioinformatics analysis. J.O., I.-J.J., Y.C., H.K.K., S.M., J.H., H.S.S., C.W.Y., H.E.Y., and J.Y. were involved in participant enrollment and providing study materials. M.G.L., J.B.P., and M.S.K. were involved in participant enrollment, study design and supervision, and writing of the article. All authors reviewed and approved the final article.
This research was supported by a grant (HI15C1543) from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project administered by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) and funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea. This work was also supported by a grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which in turn is funded by the Korean government (NRF-2013R1A3A2042197), and additional funding (2014-ER6301-00, 2014-ER6301-01, 2014-ER6301-02, 2017-ER6301-00, 2016-NI73001-02, and 2019-NG-053-00) came from the Research of Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Correspondence: Min Goo Lee, MD, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea. ([email protected]) or Jae Berm Park, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06351, Republic of Korea. ([email protected]) or Myoung Soo Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea. ([email protected]).
