Seo, Jee-Woo
Kim, Jae-Yoon
Ha, Ye Jin
Tak, Ka Hee
Kim, Jeong-Hwan
Cho, Young-Bum
Park, Seong-Hwan
Yoon, Yong Sik
Kim, Chan Wook
Lee, Jong Lyul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5878-8000
Kim, Seon-Young https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1030-7730
Kim, Seon-Kyu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4176-5187
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2022R1A2C2008480, 2018R1C1B6008571, 2022R1F1A1074317)
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KGM5192423)
Article History
Received: 26 December 2024
Revised: 29 May 2025
Accepted: 24 June 2025
First Online: 2 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Asan Medical Centre (IRB registration number: 2022-1030) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and relevant guidelines and regulations. The requirement for informed consent was waived due to the retrospective nature of the study and the use of biobank samples. When the participants donated tissue to the biobank, they provided informed consent for the use of their tissue and data for research purposes.