About the Authors

Masaki Matsushita

Affiliations Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Hiroshi Kitoh

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Bisei Ohkawara

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Kenichi Mishima

Affiliations Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Hiroshi Kaneko

Affiliations Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Mikako Ito

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Akio Masuda

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Naoki Ishiguro

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Kinji Ohno

ohnok@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H. Kitoh NI KO. Performed the experiments: MM KM H. Kaneko. Analyzed the data: MM BO MI AM. Wrote the paper: MM H. Kitoh KO.