Nakahara, Keiichi
Nakane, Shunya http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1958-095X
Kitajima, Mika
Masuda-Narita, Tomoko
Matsuo, Hidenori
Ando, Yukio
Article History
Received: 20 August 2019
Revised: 6 October 2019
Accepted: 11 November 2019
First Online: 19 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: K.N. has received honoraria for lectures at symposia from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. S.N. has received honoraria for lectures at symposia from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., and was supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16K09695). M.K. has received honoraria for lectures at symposia from Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd, and Canon Medical Systems Corporation, and was supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K09930). T.M–N. has received honoraria for lectures at symposia from Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. H.M. has received honoraria for lectures at symposia from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., FP Pharmaceutical Corporation, Japan Blood Products Organization, Eisai Co., Ltd., Fujifilm Co., Ltd., Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., and was supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan. Y.A, was supported by grants from the Amyloidosis Research Committee; the Pathogenesis, Therapy of Hereditary Neuropathy Research Committee; the Surveys and Research on Specific Disease; the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan; the Charitable Trust Clinical Pathology Research Foundation of Japan; and Research for the Future Program Grant; and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 15DH04841 from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional ethics committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards (permit number: 1401).