About the Authors

Fumi Kishi

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Kojiro Nagai

Roles Writing – original draft

knagai@tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Norimichi Takamatsu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Kidney Disease (Dialysis & Transplantation), Kawashima Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

Tatsuya Tominaga

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Chronomedicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Masanori Tamaki

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Eriko Shibata

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Taichi Murakami

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Seiji Kishi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Hideharu Abe

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yasuhiko Koezuka

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation HuBit Genomix Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Naoto Minagawa

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation HuBit Genomix Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Go Ichien

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation HuBit Genomix Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Doi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors declare that co-author Hideharu Abe is a PLOS ONE Editorial board member. The authors also declare that co-authors Naoto Minagawa, Yasuhiko Koezuka and Go Ichien belong to HuBit Genomix Inc. and are employed by a commercial company (HuBit Genomix Inc.). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.