About the Authors

Yoshiki Murakami

ymurakami@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Hidenori Toyoda

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Ogaki, Japan

Masami Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiko Kuroda

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Harada

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Fumihiko Matsuda

Affiliation Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Atsushi Tajima

Current address: Department of Human Genetics and Public Health, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

Nobuyoshi Kosaka

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Ochiya

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Kunitada Shimotohno

Affiliation Research Institute, Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM KS. Performed the experiments: YM HT YH NK. Analyzed the data: MT MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM HT YH NK. Wrote the paper: YM MT AT FM NK TO.