About the Authors

Michiyo Tsuru

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

michiyo@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Clinical Proteomics and Gene Therapy Laboratory, Kurume University, Fukuoka, Japan

Atsushi Ono

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hirosaki Memorial Hospital, Hirosaki, Japan

Hideaki Umeyama

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Takeuchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine (Biostatistics), Kitasato University School of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan

Kensei Nagata

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.