About the Authors

Myoung Sook Kim

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joost Louwagie

Affiliation OncoMethylome Sciences S.A, CHU Niveau +4Tour 4 dePharmacie (bâtiment 36), Liege, Belgium

Beatriz Carvalho

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jochim S. Terhaar sive Droste

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hannah Lui Park

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Young Kwang Chae

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Keishi Yamashita

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Junwei Liu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kimberly Laskie Ostrow

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shizhang Ling

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rafael Guerrero-Preston

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Semra Demokan

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zubeyde Yalniz

Affiliation Oncology institute, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Nejat Dalay

Affiliation Oncology institute, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Gerrit A. Meijer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Wim Van Criekinge

Affiliation OncoMethylome Sciences S.A, CHU Niveau +4Tour 4 dePharmacie (bâtiment 36), Liege, Belgium

David Sidransky

dsidrans@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Under a licensing agreement between OncoMethylome Sciences, SA and the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Sidransky is entitled to a share of royalty received by the University on sales of products described in this article. Dr. Sidransky owns OncoMethylome Sciences, SA stock, which is subject to certain restrictions under University policy. Dr. Sidransky is a paid consultant to OncoMethylome Sciences, SA and is a paid member of the company's Scientific Advisory Board. The term of this arrangement is being managed by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSK WVC DS. Performed the experiments: MSK JL BC JSTsD. Analyzed the data: MSK JL YKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSK KY JL KLO SL RGP SD ZY ND GAM. Wrote the paper: MSK HLP DS.