About the Authors
- Takeshi Hanami
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Hanami, Diane Delobel
Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Diane Delobel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Hanami, Diane Delobel
Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Hajime Kanamori
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Affiliation K.K. DNAFORM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Yuki Tanaka
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Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Yasumasa Kimura
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Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Ayako Nakasone
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Affiliation K.K. DNAFORM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Takahiro Soma
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Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Yoshihide Hayashizaki
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Affiliation RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Kengo Usui
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* E-mail: matthias.harbers@riken.jp (MH); kusui@gsc.riken.jp (KU)
Affiliations Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Matthias Harbers
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* E-mail: matthias.harbers@riken.jp (MH); kusui@gsc.riken.jp (KU)
Affiliations Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, K.K. DNAFORM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Competing Interests
HK, AN, and MH had been employees of K.K. DNAFORM, a company holding commercial rights to Eprimer and Eprobe technology. TH and TS are inventors of Japanese patent applications: Patent name: ”New fluorescent material for labeling biomolecules,” and number JP2012-091400 and patent name: ”Nucleic acid probe, design method of nucleic acid probe, and detection method for target sequence,” and number JP2012-158229. HK and YK are inventors of Japanese patent application patent name: ”Nucleic acid probe, design method of nucleic acid probe, and detection method for target sequence” and number JP2012-158229; YH is an inventor of patents name: ”Primer, primer set, and nucleic acid amplification method and mutation detection method using the same” and number JP2009-171935, and patent name: “Primer, primer set, and nucleic acid amplification method and mutation detection method using the same” and number US8067162, and pending patent applications name: “New fluorescent material for labeling biomolecules” and number JP2012-091400, and name: “Nucleic acid probe, design method of nucleic acid probe, and detection method for target sequence” and number JP2012-158229. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TH DD KU YH MH. Performed the experiments: TH DD TS HK AN YT. Analyzed the data: TH DD MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK. Wrote the paper: MH.