About the Authors

Jiyoung Ahn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiyoung Ahn, Liying Yang

jiyoung.ahn@nyumc.org

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Liying Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiyoung Ahn, Liying Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Bruce J. Paster

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ian Ganly

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Luc Morris

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhiheng Pei

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Richard B. Hayes

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA LY BJP IG LM ZP RBH. Performed the experiments: JA YL BJP. Analyzed the data: JA LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA LY BJP ZP. Wrote the paper: JA RBH. Obtained biospecimen: IG LM.