About the Authors

Siew-Kee Low

amanda.sklow@src.riken.jp

Affiliations Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Yokohama, Japan, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Takahashi

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Yokohama, Japan

Kyota Ashikawa

Affiliation Laboratory for Genotyping Development, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Yokohama, Japan

Johji Inazawa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cytogenetics, Medical Research Institute and School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshio Miki

Affiliation Department of Genetic iagnosis, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Michiaki Kubo

Affiliation Laboratory for Genotyping Development, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Yokohama, Japan

Yusuke Nakamura

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Medicine and Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Toyomasa Katagiri

Affiliation Division of Genome Medicine, Institute for Genome Research, The University of Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN TK. Performed the experiments: SKL KA. Analyzed the data: SKL AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT JI YM MK. Wrote the paper: SKL YN TK.