About the Authors

Kazuyuki Kitatani

kitatani@med.tohoku.ac.jp (KK); yusuf.hannun@sbumed.org (YAH)

Affiliations Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Masayuki Wada

Affiliation Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

David Perry

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Toshinori Usui

Affiliation Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Ying Sun

Affiliations Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Departments of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Lina M. Obeid

Affiliations Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Northport Veterans Affairs Hospital, Northport, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Nobuo Yaegashi

Affiliations Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Gregory A. Grabowski

Affiliations Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Departments of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yusuf A. Hannun

kitatani@med.tohoku.ac.jp (KK); yusuf.hannun@sbumed.org (YAH)

Affiliations Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMO NY GAG YAH. Performed the experiments: MW DP. Analyzed the data: YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TU. Wrote the paper: KK.