About the Authors

Hiroaki Okae

Affiliations Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, JST, CREST, Saitama, Japan

Hatsune Chiba

Affiliations Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, JST, CREST, Saitama, Japan

Hitoshi Hiura

Affiliations Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, JST, CREST, Saitama, Japan

Hirotaka Hamada

Affiliations Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, JST, CREST, Saitama, Japan

Akiko Sato

Affiliations Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, St. Luke Clinic Laboratory, Oita, Japan

Takafumi Utsunomiya

Affiliation St. Luke Clinic Laboratory, Oita, Japan

Hiroyuki Kikuchi

Affiliation Yoshida Ladies Clinic Center for Reproductive Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Hiroaki Yoshida

Affiliation Yoshida Ladies Clinic Center for Reproductive Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Atsushi Tanaka

Affiliation St. Mother Clinic Laboratory, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

Mikita Suyama

Affiliations JST, CREST, Saitama, Japan, Division of Bioinformatics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Fukuoka, Japan

Takahiro Arima

tarima@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, JST, CREST, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HO HC TA. Performed the experiments: HO HC HHi HHa. Analyzed the data: HO MS TA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS TU HK HY AT. Wrote the paper: HO HC TA.