About the Authors

Yumiko Matsubara

yumikoma@a7.keio.jp

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yukako Ono

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hidenori Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Morphological and Biomolecular Research, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Fumio Arai

Affiliation Department of Cell Differentiation, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Suda

Affiliation Department of Cell Differentiation, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuru Murata

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Ikeda

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM YI. Performed the experiments: YM YO HS. Analyzed the data: FA TS MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM HS MM YI. Wrote the paper: YM YO YI.