About the Authors

Yasunori Omata

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Omata, Shinya Nakamura, Takuma Koyama

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shinya Nakamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Omata, Shinya Nakamura, Takuma Koyama

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takuma Koyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Omata, Shinya Nakamura, Takuma Koyama

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuro Yasui

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Hirose

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Naohiro Izawa

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takumi Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuuki Imai

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathophysiology, Proteo-Science Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Ehime 791–0295, Japan

Sachiko Seo

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Mineo Kurokawa

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shuichi Tsutsumi

Affiliation Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuho Kadono

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Chikao Morimoto

Affiliation Department of Therapy Development and Innovation for Immune Disorders and Cancers, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Aburatani

Affiliation Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Miyamoto

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Sakae Tanaka

TANAKAS-ORT@h.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY CM T. Miyamoto HA S. Tanaka. Performed the experiments: YO SN TK TY JH NI T. Matsumoto. Analyzed the data: YO TY NI YI S. Tsutsumi YK T. Miyamoto HA S. Tanaka. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS MK S. Tsutsumi CM HA. Wrote the paper: YO TY T. Miyamoto S. Tanaka.