About the Authors

Takao Kitagawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

takao-k@hoku-iryo-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Daiki Kobayashi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Omics and Systems Biology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, Department of Tumor Genetics and Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto-Shi, Kumamoto, Japan

Byron Baron

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

Hajime Okita

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinano, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuo Miyamoto

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Rie Takai

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Durga Paudel

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Tohru Ohta

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Yoichi Asaoka

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Systems Biochemistry in Pathology and Regeneration, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Masayuki Tokunaga

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Koji Nakagawa

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Makoto Furutani-Seiki

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Systems Biochemistry in Pathology and Regeneration, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Norie Araki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Tumor Genetics and Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto-Shi, Kumamoto, Japan

Yasuhiro Kuramitsu

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Masanobu Kobayashi

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advanced Research Promotion Center, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.