About the Authors

Naoki Einaga

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Akio Yoshida

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroko Noda

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masaaki Suemitsu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Oral Pathology, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan

Yuki Nakayama

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Akihisa Sakurada

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiko Kawaji

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiromi Yamaguchi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yasushi Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Takashi Tokino

Affiliation Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Mariko Esumi

esumi.mariko@nihon-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ME. Data curation: NE ME. Funding acquisition: TT ME. Investigation: NE AY HN MS YN AS YS. Methodology: NE AY ME. Project administration: ME. Resources: NE AY HN MS YK. Software: NE YS TT ME. Supervision: ME. Validation: NE YN AS. Writing – original draft: NE. Writing – review & editing: HY ME.