About the Authors
- Xicheng Song
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xicheng Song, Jun Liu
Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Yuhuangding Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai, China
- Erich M. Sturgis
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Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jun Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xicheng Song, Jun Liu
Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Lei Jin
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Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Stomatology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Southern Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Zhongqiu Wang
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Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Radiology, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
- Caiyun Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Changhai Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
- Qingyi Wei
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Guojun Li
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* E-mail: gli@mdanderson.org
Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XS EMS JL LJ ZW QW CZ GL. Performed the experiments: XS EMS JL LJ ZW GL. Analyzed the data: XS EMS JL LJ ZW CZ GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EMS QW GL. Wrote the paper: XS EMS JL LJ GL.