About the Authors

Asako Ueda

Contributed equally to this work with: Asako Ueda, Akira Takasawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Akira Takasawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Asako Ueda, Akira Takasawa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

atakasawa@sapmed.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Taishi Akimoto

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Kumi Takasawa

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Tomoyuki Aoyama

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Surgical Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yoshihiko Ino

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Masanori Nojima

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Advanced Medicine Promotion, The Advanced Clinical Research Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Ono

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Masaki Murata

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Makoto Osanai

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Tadashi Hasegawa

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Tsuyoshi Saito

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Norimasa Sawada

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.