1. Department of Hematology,
2. Department of Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology,
3. Department of Diagnostic Pathology,
4. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, and
5. Department of Pharmacology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan;
6. Department of Human Lifesciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Nursing, Fukushima, Japan;
7. Department of Hematology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA;
8. Department of Hematology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan;
9. Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan; and
10. Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan