About the Authors

Masaru Yamaguchi

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

masarun@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki, Japan

Yota Tatara

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

Affiliation Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yoshiaki Sato

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

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ikuo Kashiwakura

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

Affiliation Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.