About the Authors

Yasunori Uesato

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Uesato, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Hitoshi Zembutsu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

yassu1230@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliations Project of Development of Liquid Biopsy Diagnosis, Cancer Precision Medicine Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Naoki Sasahira

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Masato Ozaka

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Sasaki

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuhisa Takatsuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Uesato, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Hitoshi Zembutsu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Hitoshi Zembutsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Uesato, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Hitoshi Zembutsu

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Project of Development of Liquid Biopsy Diagnosis, Cancer Precision Medicine Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.