About the Authors
- Wanyang Liu
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Daisuke Morito
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
- Seiji Takashima
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Department of Molecular Cardiology, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Yohei Mineharu
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Hatasu Kobayashi
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Toshiaki Hitomi
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Hirokuni Hashikata
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliations Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Norio Matsuura
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Wanyang Liu, Daisuke Morito, Seiji Takashima, Yohei Mineharu, Hatasu Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hitomi, Hirokuni Hashikata, Norio Matsuura
Affiliation Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Satoru Yamazaki
-
Affiliation National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Atsushi Toyoda
-
Affiliation Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
- Ken-ichiro Kikuta
-
Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Yasushi Takagi
-
Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Kouji H. Harada
-
Affiliation Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Asao Fujiyama
-
Affiliations Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
- Roman Herzig
-
Affiliation Palacky University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Boris Krischek
-
Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
- Liping Zou
-
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Jeong Eun Kim
-
Affiliation Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Masafumi Kitakaze
-
Affiliation National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Susumu Miyamoto
-
Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Kazuhiro Nagata
-
Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
- Nobuo Hashimoto
-
* E-mail: hashimot@hsp.ncvc.go.jp (NH); koizumi.akio.5v@kyoto-u.ac.jp (AK)
Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Akio Koizumi
-
* E-mail: hashimot@hsp.ncvc.go.jp (NH); koizumi.akio.5v@kyoto-u.ac.jp (AK)
Affiliation Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Competing Interests
Kyoto University has applied to the Patent Office, Japan, for a patent on this gene. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLos One policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: AK WL DM ST HK TH NM SY AT AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH WL YM HH KK YT RH BK LZ JEK SM. Wrote the paper: AK NH WL DM ST YM HK TH HH SY KHH MK SM KN. Analyzed the genetic data: AK WL NM KHH AT AF. Analyzed the clinical data: NH YM HH KK YT RH BK LZ JEK MK SM. Analyzed the molecular data: DM ST HK TH SY KN. All authors have read and approved submission of the manuscript.