About the Authors

Yasuko Okano

Affiliations Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Clinical Oncology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Uru Nezu

Affiliations Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Yasuaki Enokida

Affiliations Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Thoracic and Visceral Organ Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maehashi, Japan

Ming Ta Michael Lee

Affiliations Laboratory for International Alliance on Genomic Research, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Hiroko Kinoshita

Affiliation Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Alexander Lezhava

Affiliation Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Affiliation Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Satoshi Morita

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Masataka Taguri

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan

Yasushi Ichikawa

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Takeshi Kaneko

Affiliations Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan, Respiratory Disease Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan

Yutaka Natsumeda

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Tomoyuki Yokose

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Haruhiko Nakayama

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Yohei Miyagi

Affiliation Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Toshihisa Ishikawa

toshihisa.ishikawa.r@gmail.com

Affiliation Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO UN AL YI YN TK YH. Performed the experiments: YO UN YE AL HK. Analyzed the data: YO TI SM MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YO UN YE AL HK. Wrote the paper: YO TI. Wrote the research plan: TI. Contributed to the sample collection: YM HN MTML TY. Contributed to the clinical study: YM HN MTML TY.