Yoshiki Kobayashi^1,2, Akira Kanda^1,2, Yasutaka Yun¹, Dan Van Bui¹, Mikiya Asako^1,2, Hiroshi Iwai¹ (1.Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kansai Medical University Hospital, Japan, 2.Allergic Center, Kansai Medical University Hospital, Japan)

Masayuki Nishide¹, Takeshi Tsuda², Atsushi Kumanogoh¹ (1.Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, 2.Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Akira Nakazono, Masanobu Suzuki, Shogo Kimura, Aya Honma, Yuji Nakamaru, Akihiro Homma (Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Ichiro Tojima, Shiori Hara, Keigo Nakamura, Sayuri Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Arai, Hideaki Kouzaki, Shino Shimizu, Takeshi Shimizu (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan)

Ming Zheng, Xiangdong Wang, Kun Du, Luo Zhang (Department of Otorhinolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, China)

Masanori Kidoguchi^1,2, Emiko Noguchi², Shigeharu Fujieda¹ (1.Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Department of Sensory and Locomotor Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Japan, 2.Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan)