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Authors and Affiliations

1. Stem Cell Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8506, Japan

   Teruhiko Suzuki, Mana Yamakawa, Shiho Sasaki & Takahiko Hara

2. Immunomedicine Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8506, Japan

   Teruhiko Suzuki & Mana Yamakawa

3. Chromosome Engineering Research Center (CERC), Tottori University, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, 683-8503, Japan

   Akane Okada, Kanako Kazuki, Satoshi Abe & Yasuhiro Kazuki

4. Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan

   Seia Nara & Masayuki Su’etsugu

5. Moderna Enzymatics, Co., Ltd, 2-3-8 Shinkiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 136-0082, Japan

   Seia Nara

6. Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Science Tokyo, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan

   Takahiko Hara

7. Graduate School of Science, Department of Biological Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan

   Takahiko Hara

8. Department of Chromosome Biomedical Engineering, Integrated Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Tottori University, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8503, Japan

   Yasuhiro Kazuki

9. Chromosome Engineering Research Group, The Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan

   Yasuhiro Kazuki

Contributions

T.S., Y.K., and T.H., conceptualization; T.S., M.Y., S.S., A.O, K.K, S.A., and S.N., investigation; T.S., formal analysis; T.S., Y.K., M.S., and T.H., validation; T.S. and Y.K., funding acquisition; T.S. and Y.K., project administration; T.S., T.H., M.S., and Y.K., supervision; T.S., visualization; T.S., writing-original draft; All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Teruhiko Suzuki or Yasuhiro Kazuki.

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