About the Authors

Honami Takada

Contributed equally to this work with: Honami Takada, Ken-Ichi Imadome

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Laboratory Molecular Genetics of Hematology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ken-Ichi Imadome

Contributed equally to this work with: Honami Takada, Ken-Ichi Imadome

Affiliation Division of Advanced Medicine for Virus Infections, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Haruna Shibayama

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Laboratory Molecular Genetics of Hematology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Mayumi Yoshimori

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Laboratory Molecular Genetics of Hematology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ludan Wang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yasunori Saitoh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shin Uota

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shoji Yamaoka

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takatoshi Koyama

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Laboratory Molecular Genetics of Hematology, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Norio Shimizu

Affiliation Virus Research Unit, Division of Medical Science, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kouhei Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Comprehensive Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Tokyo, Japan

Shigeyoshi Fujiwara

Affiliation Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Miura

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ayako Arai

ara.hema@tmd.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AA HT K-II HS MY SY TK SF OM. Data curation: HT K-II HS MY AA. Formal analysis: HT K-II HS MY. Funding acquisition: K-II SF AA. Investigation: HT K-II HS MY LW YS SU SY KY TK NS SF OM AA. Methodology: K-II YS SU SY NS KY. Project administration: HT K-II HS MY LW YS SU SY KY OM AA. Resources: K-II YS SU SY NS AA. Supervision: SY SF TK OM. Validation: SY SF TK OM. Visualization: HT K-II HS MY LW YS SU SY KY OM AA. Writing – original draft: HT K-II HS MY AA. Writing – review & editing: SY TK SF OM AA HT K-II HS MY LW YS NS KY.