About the Authors

Etsuko Kajimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Japan Community Health Care Organization Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Masayuki Endo

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

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Department of Children and Women’s Health, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Division of Health Science, Graduate School of medicine, StemRIM Institute of Regeneration-Inducting Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Minoru Fujimoto

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

fujimotom@kochi-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Center for Intractable Immune Disease, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

Shinya Matsuzaki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Makoto Fujii

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Health Science, Graduate School of medicine, StemRIM Institute of Regeneration-Inducting Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Kazunobu Yagi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Aiko Kakigano

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Kazuya Mimura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Takuji Tomimatsu

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Satoshi Serada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Intractable Immune Disease, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

Makoto Takeuchi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Kiyoshi Yoshino

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan

Yutaka Ueda

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tadashi Kimura

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tetsuji Naka

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Intractable Immune Disease, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan, Laboratory of Immune Signal, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: TN received a grant from SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.