About the Authors

Tomoo Sato

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Ariella Coler-Reilly

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Atae Utsunomiya

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Imamura Bun-in Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan

Natsumi Araya

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Naoko Yagishita

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Hitoshi Ando

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Junji Yamauchi

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Eisuke Inoue

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Takahiko Ueno

Affiliation Unit of Medical Statistics, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Hasegawa

Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Kusuki Nishioka

Affiliation Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Toshihiro Nakajima

Affiliations Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan

Steven Jacobson

Affiliation Viral Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shuji Izumo

Affiliation Molecular Pathology, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Yoshihisa Yamano

yyamano@marianna-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Rare Diseases Research, Institute of Medical Science, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY TS SJ SI. Performed the experiments: TS HA NA JY. Analyzed the data: TS AU NA NY HA JY EI TU YH KN TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY AU YH. Wrote the paper: YY TS ACR.