About the Authors

Daisuke Saigusa

saigusa@m.tohoku.ac.jp (DS); masiyamamoto@med.tohoku.ac.jp (MY)

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Yasunobu Okamura

Affiliation Department of Systems Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Ikuko N. Motoike

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Systems Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yasutake Katoh

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yasuhiro Kurosawa

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Reina Saijyo

Affiliation Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Seizo Koshiba

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Jun Yasuda

Affiliation Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Hozumi Motohashi

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Gene Expression Regulation, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Junichi Sugawara

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

Osamu Tanabe

Affiliation Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Kengo Kinoshita

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Systems Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Masayuki Yamamoto

saigusa@m.tohoku.ac.jp (DS); masiyamamoto@med.tohoku.ac.jp (MY)

Affiliations Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DS JS SK JY HM OT KK MY. Data curation: DS YO INM KK. Formal analysis: DS OT. Funding acquisition: DS YO OT KK MY. Investigation: DS Y. Kurosawa Y. Katoh. Methodology: DS Y. Katoh Y. Kurosawa RS. Project administration: DS JY OT KK MY. Resources: DS SK OT KK MY. Software: DS YO INM KK. Supervision: SK JY OT KK MY. Validation: DS Y. Katoh. Visualization: DS YO INM KK. Writing - original draft: DS. Writing - review & editing: DS YO OT KK MY.