About the Authors

Hisato Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of BioScience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Sakurai

Affiliation Department of BioScience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Misaki Imai

Affiliation Genome Research Center, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Nozomi Takahashi

Affiliation Department of BioScience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Fukuda

Affiliation Department of BioScience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Obata Yayoi

Affiliation Department of BioScience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Shun Sato

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Kenichiro Hata

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Sotomaru

Affiliation Natural Science Center for Basic Research and Development, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Yutaka Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Tomohiro Kono

tomohiro@nodai.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of BioScience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, Genome Research Center, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H Kobayashi, Y Suzuki, T Kono. Performed the experiments: H Kobayashi, T Sakurai. Analyzed the data: H Kobayashi, M Imai, Y Suzuki. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H Kobayashi, T Sakurai, M Imai, N Takahashi, A Fukuda, O Yayoi, S Sato, K Nakabayashi, K Hata, Y Sotomaru, Y Suzuki. Wrote the paper: H Kobayashi, T Kono.