About the Authors
- Ryutaro Kimura
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Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Chie Murata
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Current address: Department of Human Genetics, Institute of Health Biosciences, the University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Yoko Kuroki
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Current address: Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Affiliation RIKEN, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Asato Kuroiwa
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* E-mail: asatok@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Affiliations Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Laboratory of Animal Cytogenetics, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: RK. Analyzed the data: RK AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM YK. Wrote the paper: AK RK.