About the Authors

Masaharu Hiratsuka

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cell Genetics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Narumi Uno

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Kana Ueda

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Hajime Kurosaki

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Natsuko Imaoka

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Kanako Kazuki

Affiliation Chromosome Engineering Research Center, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Etsuya Ueno

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Yutaro Akakura

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Motonobu Katoh

Affiliation Division of Human Genome Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Mitsuhiko Osaki

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Yasuhiro Kazuki

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan, Chromosome Engineering Research Center, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

Masato Nakagawa

Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Shinya Yamanaka

Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Mitsuo Oshimura

oshimura@med.tottori-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Molecular and Cell Genetics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan, Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan, Chromosome Engineering Research Center, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan, Japan Science and Technology Agency, CREST, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH MN SY MO. Performed the experiments: MH NU KU HK NI KK EU YA MK MO. Analyzed the data: MH MO YK MN SY MO. Wrote the paper: MH MO.