About the Authors

Takahide Hayano

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Hiroshi Matsui

Affiliation Department of Urology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Hirofumi Nakaoka

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Nobuaki Ohtake

Affiliation Department of Urology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Kazuyoshi Hosomichi

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Urology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

Ituro Inoue

itinoue@nig.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HM KS II. Data curation: TH. Formal analysis: TH. Funding acquisition: HM KS II. Investigation: HM NO KH KS. Methodology: TH II. Resources: HM NO KH KS. Supervision: II. Validation: TH. Visualization: TH. Writing – original draft: TH. Writing – review & editing: HM HN II.