About the Authors

Shozo Yano

syano@med.shimane-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan, The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Atsushi Nagai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan

Minoru Isomura

Affiliations Department of Functional Pathology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan, The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Masayuki Yamasaki

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan, The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Tsunetaka Kijima

Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan, The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Miwako Takeda

Affiliation The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Tsuyoshi Hamano

Affiliation The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Toru Nabika

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane, Japan, The Center for Community-based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY AN TN. Performed the experiments: SY AN TN. Analyzed the data: SY TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SY MI MY TK MT TH TN. Wrote the paper: SY TN.