About the Authors

Tomoyuki Nakano

Affiliations Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan, Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yoshihiko Kanai

Affiliation Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yusuke Amano

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Taichiro Yoshimoto

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Daisuke Matsubara

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Tomoki Shibano

Affiliation Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Tomoko Tamura

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Sachiko Oguni

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Shizuka Katashiba

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Takeshi Ito

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Murakami

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masashi Fukayama

Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Murakami

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Moroyama, Saitama, Japan

Shunsuke Endo

Affiliation Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Toshiro Niki

tniki@jichi.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Integrative Pathology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: T. Nakano SE T. Niki. Data curation: TM T. Niki. Formal analysis: T. Nakano YA TY DM TI YM. Funding acquisition: MF SE T. Niki. Investigation: T. Nakano, YK TS TT SO SK. Methodology: T. Nakano SE T. Niki. Project administration: SE T. Niki. Resources: TM MF. Supervision: YM MF TM SE T. Niki. Validation: T. Nakano T. Niki. Visualization: T. Nakano T. Niki. Writing – original draft: T. Nakano T. Niki. Writing – review & editing: YK YA TY DM TI YM MF TM SE T. Niki.