About the Authors

Wataru Yoshida

yoshidawtr@stf.teu.ac.jp (WY); nakabaya-k@ncchd.go.jp (KN)

Current address: School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Technology, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Junko Tomikawa

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Inaki

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Kimura

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Masafumi Onodera

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Kenichiro Hata

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

yoshidawtr@stf.teu.ac.jp (WY); nakabaya-k@ncchd.go.jp (KN)

Affiliation Department of Maternal-Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KN WY. Performed the experiments: WY JT. Analyzed the data: WY KN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI MO KH HK. Wrote the paper: WY KN.