Koya Ono, MD1,2*, Tohru Fujiwara, MD, PhD1,3, Hiroki Shima, PhD4*, Hironari Nishizawa, MD, PhD4*, Chie Suzuki, MS3*, Noriyuki Takahashi3*, Hiroki Kato, MD, PhD1*, Koichi Onodera, MD, PhD1*, Satoshi Ichikawa, MD, PhD1*, Noriko Fukuhara, MD, PhD5, Yasushi Onishi, MD, PhD1*, Hisayuki Yokoyama, MD, PhD1, Yukio Nakamura, MD, PhD6*, Kazuhiko Igarashi, MD, PhD4* and Hideo Harigae, MD, PhD1,3
1Department of Hematology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
2Division of Hematology, Sendai City Hospital, Sendai, Japan
3Laboratory Diagnostics, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
4Department of Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
5Department of Hematology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
6Cell Engineering Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan