About the Authors

Mitsuaki Ishida

Contributed equally to this work with: Mitsuaki Ishida, Fuminori Kimura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ishidamt@hirakata.kmu.ac.jp (MI); kimurafu@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp (FK)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Akie Takebayashi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Fuminori Kimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Mitsuaki Ishida, Fuminori Kimura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ishidamt@hirakata.kmu.ac.jp (MI); kimurafu@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp (FK)

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Akiko Nakamura

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Jun Kitazawa

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Aina Morimune

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Tetsuro Hanada

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Koji Tsuta

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Takashi Murakami

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.