About the Authors

Hiroshi Mizuuchi

Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan, Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Kenichi Suda

Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan, Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Katsuaki Sato

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Shuta Tomida

Affiliation Department of Genome Biology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Yoshihiko Fujita

Affiliation Department of Genome Biology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Yoshihisa Kobayashi

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Yoshihiko Maehara

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yoshitaka Sekido

Affiliation Division of Molecular Oncology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Kazuto Nishio

Affiliation Department of Genome Biology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Tetsuya Mitsudomi

mitsudom@surg.med.kindai.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Competing Interests

Tetsuya Mitsudomi has received lecture fee from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chugai, Taiho and Pfizer and research funding from AstraZeneca Boehringer Ingelheim, Chugai and Taiho. The other authors have no conflict of disclosure. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM K. Suda TM. Performed the experiments: HM K. Suda K. Sato YF YK TM. Analyzed the data: HM ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HM K. Suda ST YS KN. Wrote the paper: HM K. Suda YM TM.