About the Authors
- Hirofumi Chiba
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Yoichi Kakuta
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Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: ykakuta@med.tohoku.ac.jp
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Yoshitaka Kinouchi
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Yosuke Kawai
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Munenori Nagao
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Takeo Naito
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Motoyuki Onodera
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Rintaro Moroi
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Masatake Kuroha
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Yoshitake Kanazawa
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Tomoya Kimura
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Hisashi Shiga
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Katsuya Endo
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan
- Kenichi Negoro
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Masao Nagasaki
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Michiaki Unno
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Tooru Shimosegawa
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Competing Interests
M. Nagasaki received research grants from Toshiba Corporation during the conduct of the study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.