Nakashima, Momoka
Ishikawa, Kana
Fugiwara, Aika
Shu, Kaiin
Fukushima, Yoshimi
Okamoto, Masaaki
Tsukamoto, Hirotake
Kouwaki, Takahisa
Oshiumi, Hiroyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
AMED
MEXT
Article History
Received: 25 September 2020
Accepted: 16 April 2021
First Online: 30 April 2021
Competing interests
: A patent related to this work has been submitted. H.O. and K.I. are the inventors, and the applicant is Kumamoto University. Application numbers for the patent are TOKUGAN2018-15968 (Japan) and PCT/JP2019/33742 and cover miR-451a as a biomarker to predict onset and severity of autoimmune diseases. The patent is currently pending. The authors have no other competing interests.