About the Authors

Naoaki Sakata

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

n-sakata@surg1.med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yohko Yamaguchi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisions of Rare Cancer Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yu Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisions of Rare Cancer Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Shimoda

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Gumpei Yoshimatsu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Michiaki Unno

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Shoichiro Sumi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share last authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Organ and Tissue Reconstruction, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Rieko Ohki

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share last authorship on this work.

Affiliation Divisions of Rare Cancer Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.