About the Authors

Dae Hyun Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Dae Hyun Kim, Hye Jin Chung

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hye Jin Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Dae Hyun Kim, Hye Jin Chung

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joachim Bleys

Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Reza F. Ghohestani

Ghohestani@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Texas Dermatology Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHK HJC RFG. Analyzed the data: DHK HJC JB RFG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DHK JB. Wrote the paper: DHK HJC RFG. Conducted literature search and review, performed statistical analysis, and revised manuscript critically for important intellectual content: DHK. Conducted literature search and review, and revised manuscript critically for important intellectual content: HJC. Revised manuscript critically for important intellectual content: JB. Revised manuscript critically for important intellectual content and supervised the entire process: RFG.