About the Authors
- Hiroyuki Yanagawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroyuki Yanagawa, Hitoshi Suzuki
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Hitoshi Suzuki
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroyuki Yanagawa, Hitoshi Suzuki
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yusuke Suzuki
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Krzysztof Kiryluk
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America
- Ali G. Gharavi
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America
- Kiyoshi Matsuoka
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Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yuko Makita
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Bruce A. Julian
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Jan Novak
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Yasuhiko Tomino
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* E-mail: yasu@juntendo.ac.jp
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HS YT. Performed the experiments: HY HS. Analyzed the data: KM KK AGG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAJ JN. Wrote the paper: HY HS BAJ JN. Collected serum samples: YS. Collected clinical data: YM.