Takashima, Tsuyoshi
Taniyama, Daiki
Sakamoto, Naoya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6273-0189
Yasumoto, Maika
Asai, Ryuichi
Hattori, Takuya
Honma, Ririno
Thang, Pham Quoc http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8787-367X
Ukai, Shoichi
Maruyama, Ryota
Harada, Kenji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8995-2846
Kuraoka, Kazuya
Tanabe, Kazuaki
Sasaki, Atsuo T.
Ohdan, Hideki
Morii, Eiichi
Murai, Junko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-6160
Yasui, Wataru
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16H06999, JP19H03505, JP16K08691, JP15H04713, JP16K15247)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (R01NS089815)
Uehara Memorial Foundation
Article History
Received: 24 November 2020
Revised: 18 February 2021
Accepted: 8 March 2021
First Online: 30 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, Kure, Japan (No. 2019-36), Human Genome Research of Hiroshima University, Hiroshima (E 597 01) and conformed to the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. All patients provided written informed consent to participate in this study.
: Not applicable.
: All the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the Supplementary Information files and from the corresponding authors on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JP15H04713 and JP16K08691 to W.Y., JP16H06999 to N.S. and JP19H03505 to J.M.), Challenging Exploratory Research (26670175, JP16K15247 to W.Y.) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the National Institute of Health (NIH) (R01NS089815 to A.T.S.) and a research grant from The Uehara Memorial Foundation (to J.M.). This work was supported in part by research funds from the Yamagata prefectural government and the City of Tsuruoka.