About the Authors

Michiko Matsuse

Contributed equally to this work with: Michiko Matsuse, Kensaku Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Kensaku Sasaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Michiko Matsuse, Kensaku Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Eijun Nishihara

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Shigeki Minami

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Chisa Hayashida

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Hisayoshi Kondo

Affiliation Division of Scientific Data Registry, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Keiji Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Vladimir Saenko

Affiliation Department of Health Risk Control, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Koh-ichiro Yoshiura

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Norisato Mitsutake

mitsu@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Nagasaki University Research Centre for Genomic Instability and Carcinogenesis (NRGIC), Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Shunichi Yamashita

Affiliations Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Health Risk Control, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM KS VS KY NM SY. Performed the experiments: MM KS CH. Analyzed the data: MM KS HK KY NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EN SM. Wrote the paper: MM KS NM.