Ohno, Shinji http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2093-3353
Saji, Shigehira
Masuda, Norikazu
Tsuda, Hitoshi
Akiyama, Futoshi
Kurosumi, Masafumi
Shimomura, Akihiko
Sato, Nobuaki
Takao, Shintaro
Ohsumi, Shozo
Tokuda, Yutaka
Inaji, Hideo
Watanabe, Toru
Ohashi, Yasuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
SRL Medisearch Inc.
Taiho Pharmaceutical
Article History
Received: 2 September 2020
Accepted: 12 November 2020
First Online: 1 December 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: S. Ohno received research grants from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Eisai, and honoraria from Chugai, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Eisai. SS received honoraria from Chugai, Eisai, AstraZeneca, Takeda, Novartis, Kyowa Kirin, Eli Lilly, MSD, and Pfizer; research grants from Daiichi Sankyo, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Eisai, Novartis, Takeda, and Chugai; and consultant fees from Chugai, Novartis, and Kyowa Kirin. NM received honoraria from Chugai, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Eisai, and Takeda and research grants to the institution from Chugai, AstraZeneca, Kyowa Kirin, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Eisai, Nippon Kayaku, and Daiichi Sankyo. HT received research grants from Chugai and Taiho Pharmaceutical; and personal fees from Roche Diagnostics, Konica Minolta, Eisai, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. NS received personal fees from Chugai, Eisai, Pfizer, Sysmex, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Kyowa Kirin, and Eli Lilly Japan for outside the submitted work. S Ohsumi received lecture fee from AstraZeneca. YO received executive compensation from Statcom; honoraria from Daiichi Sankyo, Chugai, Shionogi, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Sanofi, and EP-CRSU; and research grant from Medical Member System for outside the submitted work. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the independent ethics committee at each study site and was conducted in agreement with the Helsinki Declaration, ethical guidelines for medical research on humans, and ethics guidelines for human genome/gene analysis research.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.