About the Authors

Yasuko Onuma

Affiliation Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 4, Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroaki Tateno

Affiliation Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 2, Tsukuba, Japan

Shingo Tsuji

Affiliation Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Hirabayashi

Affiliation Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 2, Tsukuba, Japan

Yuzuru Ito

yuzu-itou@aist.go.jp

Affiliation Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 4, Tsukuba, Japan

Makoto Asashima

Affiliation Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 4, Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO YI. Performed the experiments: YO HT. Analyzed the data: YO HT ST YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH MA. Wrote the paper: YO HT ST JH YI.