About the Authors

Daichi Maeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Daichi Maeda, Yoshiyuki Akiyama

maeda-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Cellular and Organ Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan

Yoshiyuki Akiyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Daichi Maeda, Yoshiyuki Akiyama

Affiliations Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Continence Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Teppei Morikawa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Akiko Kunita

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasunori Ota

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroto Katoh

Affiliation Department of Genomic Pathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Aya Niimi

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Nomiya

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shumpei Ishikawa

Affiliation Department of Genomic Pathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Akiteru Goto

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Organ Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan

Yasuhiko Igawa

Affiliation Department of Continence Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masashi Fukayama

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yukio Homma

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM YA TM AK YO HK SI AG YI MF YH. Performed the experiments: DM YA A. Niimi A. Nomiya. Analyzed the data: DM YA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM TM MF. Wrote the paper: DM YA TM HK SI YI AG MF YH.