1. Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan;
2. Department of Internal Medicine, Keiju Medical Center, Nanao, Japan;
3. Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Advanced Preventive Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan;
4. Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan;
5. Clinical Laboratory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan; and
6. Department of HLA Laboratory, Japanese Red Cross Kanto-Koshinetsu Block Blood Center, Tokyo, Japan