About the Authors

Kota Kasahara

Current address: Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3–2, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan

Affiliation Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3-09, Aramaki-aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8597, Japan

Matsuyuki Shirota

Affiliations Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3-09, Aramaki-aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8597, Japan, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2–1, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8573, Japan, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2–1, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8575, Japan

Kengo Kinoshita

kengo@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3-09, Aramaki-aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8597, Japan, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2–1, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8573, Japan, Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, Tohoku University, 4–1, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980–8575, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Kasahara MS K. Kinoshita. Performed the experiments: K. Kasahara. Analyzed the data: K. Kasahara. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K. Kasahara. Wrote the paper: K. Kasahara MS K. Kinoshita.