About the Authors

Satoshi Yanagida

yanagi@jikei.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Michael S. Anglesio

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tayyebeh M. Nazeran

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Amy Lum

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Momoko Inoue

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yasushi Iida

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hirokuni Takano

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Nikaido

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kosei General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Aikou Okamoto

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

David G. Huntsman

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SY MA AO DH. Data curation: SY MI YI AL. Formal analysis: YI TN TMN HT. Funding acquisition: DH. Investigation: SY MA DH. Methodology: SY MA DH. Project administration: SY DH. Resources: AL HT TN. Supervision: AO DH. Validation: MA DH. Visualization: SY. Writing – original draft: SY. Writing – review & editing: SY.