Authors’ contributions
Masao Jinno, MD, PhD made principal contributions to study design and to acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data. He wrote the greater part of this article. He gave final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Yukoku Tamaoka, MD, PhD participated in acquisition of clinical ART data and describing some of the clinical ART procedures. He gave final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Koji Teruya, MD took part in statistical analysis and interpretation of data, and also wrote some of the description of data analysis. He gave final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Aiko Watanabe took part in acquisition of clinical ART data and wrote part of the description of clinical ART procedures. She also gave final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Naohisa Hatakeyama participated in acquisition of embryonic data related to ART, writing some of the results concerning embryonic assessments, and giving final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Tomoya Goda participated in acquisition of embryonic data related to ART, writing some of the results concerning embryonic assessments, and giving final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Hayato Kimata participated in acquisition of embryonic data related to ART, writing some of the results concerning embryonic assessments, and giving final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published. Yuichi Jinno, MD participated in acquisition of clinical ART data, describing some of the clinical ART procedures, and giving final approval for this version of the manuscript to be published.