About the Authors
- Yuma Tani
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: yuma-tani@matsutani.co.jp
Affiliation Matsutani Chemical Industry Co. Ltd., Itami-city, Japan
- Masaaki Tokuda
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Kagawa University, Takamatsu-city, Japan
- Naoki Nishimoto
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Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinical Research and Medical Innovation Center, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo-city, Japan
- Hideto Yokoi
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Kagawa University Hospital, Kita-gun, Japan
- Ken Izumori
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kita-gun, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: YT works for Matsutani Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. and receives salary as an employee. MT has patent with royalties paid to Kagawa University. KI has patent with royalties paid to Kagawa University. Matsutani Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. pays research grants to KI and advisor grants to MT. The authors would like to declare the following patents/patent applications associated with this research: JP 4627841, 5639759, 4609845, 4942001, 5283173, 4822272, 5633952, and 5715046. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.