^○Hiroyuki Awano¹, Masaaki Matsumoto¹, Masashi Nagai¹, Taku Shirakawa², Teruaki Takasaki², Nobuhiro Maruyama³, Yoichi Nabeshima⁴, Masafumi Matsuo², Kazumoto Iijima¹ (1.Kobe Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe Japan, 2.Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan, 3.Diagnostic & Research Reagents Division, Immuno-Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd. Fujioka, Japan, 4.Laboratory of Molecular Life Science, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan)

^○Tomoko Lee¹, Hideki Shimomura¹, Hiroyuki Awano², Kazumoto Iijima², Hiroshi Ogi³, Kyoko Ito³, Masafumi Matsuo⁴, Yasuhiro Takeshima¹ (1.Department of Pediatrics, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan, 2.Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, 3.Department of Pathology and Applied Neurobiology Graduate School of Medical Science Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, 4.Department of Medical Rehabilitation, Kobegakuin University, Kobe, Japan)

^○Eri Takeshita¹, Yasuyuki Iwata², Hiroyuki Yajima², Hisateru Tachimori³, Naohiro Kato³, Hirofumi Komaki^1,4, Masayuki Sasaki¹, Outcome Measures Study Group⁵ (1.Department of Child Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 2.Department of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 3.Department of Mental Health and Policy, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 4.Department of Clinical Research Promotion, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 5.Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trial Network Study group for outcome measures)

^○Toshio Saito¹, Katsuhisa Ogata², Satoshi Kuru³, Tsuyoshi Matsumura¹, Toshiaki Takahashi⁴, Michio Kobayashi⁵, Hiroto Takada⁶, Takashi Mikata⁷, Hajime Arahata⁸, Michinori Funato⁹, Takayasu Fukudome^9,10 (1.Division of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology, National Hospital Orga nization Toneyama National Hospital, Toyonaka, Japan, 2.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Higashisaitama Hospital, Hasuda, Saitama, Japan, 3.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization National Suzuka Hospital, Suzuka, Mie, Japan, 4.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Sendai-Nishitaga National Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 5.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization National Akita Hospital, Yurihonjo, Akita, Japan, 6.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization National Aomori Hospital, Aomori, Japan, 7.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization National Shimoshizu Hospital, Yotsukaido, Chiba, Japan, 8.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Omuta Hospital, Omura, Japan, 9.Department of Pediatrics, National Hospital Organization Nagara medical Center, Nagara, Japan, 10.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan)

^○Ayako Hattori¹, Ayako Hattori¹, Yuji Nakamura¹, Daisuke Ieda¹, Ikumi Hori¹, Yutaka Negishi¹, Yuko Motohashi², Hirofumi Komaki², Satoshi Kuru³, Shinji Saitoh¹ (1.Nagoya City University, Graduate school of Medical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Aichi, Japan, 2.Department of Child Neurology , National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) , Tokyo , Japan, 3.National Hospital Organization Suzuka National Hospital, Department of Neurology, Mie, Japan)

^○Tatsuya Fujii, Tomohiro Kumada, Mioko Mori, Akihito Nozaki, Ikuko Hiejima, Minoru Shibata, Anri Hayashi, Kenji Inoue, Saeko Sasaki (Department of Pediatrics, Shiga Medical Center for Children, Moriyama, Japan)