About the Authors
- Junichi Yasui
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan
- Eiji Kawasaki
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* E-mail: e-kawasaki@tenjinkai.or.jp
Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Shin-Koga Hospital, Kurume, Japan
- Shoichiro Tanaka
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Affiliation Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
- Takuya Awata
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Affiliation Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, International University of Health and Welfare Hospital, Tochigi, Japan
- Hiroshi Ikegami
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Akihisa Imagawa
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Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
- Yasuko Uchigata
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Affiliation Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Haruhiko Osawa
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
- Hiroshi Kajio
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Affiliation Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Center Hospital, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yumiko Kawabata
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Akira Shimada
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saiseikai Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Kazuma Takahashi
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Affiliation Department of Diabetes and Metabolism, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan
- Kazuki Yasuda
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Affiliation Department of Metabolic Disorder, Diabetes Research Center, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Hisafumi Yasuda
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Affiliation Division of Health Sciences, Department of Community Health Sciences, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan
- Toshiaki Hanafusa
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan
- Tetsuro Kobayashi
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Affiliation Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Tokyo, Japan
- Japan Diabetes Society Committee on Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Research
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¶Membership of the Japan Diabetes Society Committee on Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Research is listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EK TH TK. Performed the experiments: JY EK. Analyzed the data: JY EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST TA HI AI YU HO HK YK AS KT KY HY. Wrote the paper: JY EK.