About the Authors

Tomoko Haruma

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Takeshi Nagasaka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

takeshin@med.kawasaki-m.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

Keiichiro Nakamura

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Junko Haraga

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Akihiro Nyuya

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

Takeshi Nishida

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Ajay Goel

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Gastrointestinal Research, Center for Translational Genomics and Oncology, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Charles A Sammons Cancer Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hisashi Masuyama

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Yuji Hiramatsu

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.