^○Masafumi Katayama, Satoshi Koizumi, Keisuke Ida, Kohei Segami, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Shinjiro Kobayashi, Takehito Ostubo (Department of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine)

^○Chun-Yi Tsai¹, Chun-Nan Yeh¹, Ming-Huang Chen², Yu-Chan Chang³, Lee-Cheng Tsao⁴, Shang-Yu Wang¹, Chi-Tung Cheng^1,5, Kun-Chun Chiang⁶, Tsung-Wen Chen¹, Wen-Hui Weng⁴ (1.Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2.Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, 3.Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 4.Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 5.Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 6.Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kee-lung, Taiwan)

^○Tadashi Matsumoto, Ryugaku Kim, Mariko Tanaka, Ryohei Sato, Takanobu Sigeta (Yokohama Asahi Chuo General Hospital)

^○Kazuhiko Hashimoto, Kei Adachi, Ryouji Nonaka, Jeong Ho Moon, Yujiro Fujie, Shoichiro Fujita, Shingi Imaoka, Tadashi Ohnishi (Deptartment of Surgery, NTT West Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Japan)

^○Fuminori Sonohara¹, Yoshikuni Inokawa¹, Masamichi Hayashi¹, Suguru Yamada¹, Hiroyuki Sugimoto¹, Tsutomu Fujii², Shuji Nomoto³, Yasuhiro Kodera¹ (1.Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, 2.Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, 3.Department of Surgery, Aichi-Gakuin University School of Dentistry, Nagoya, Japan)