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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan; Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
• ² Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ³ Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan; Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI-IFReC), Osaka University, Suita, Japan. Electronic address: yokada@sg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.