About the Authors

Chunbo Shao

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Marietta Tan

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Justin A. Bishop

Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jia Liu

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Weiliang Bai

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Daria A. Gaykalova

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Takenori Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Ami R. Vikani

Affiliation The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington D.C., United States of America

Yuri Agrawal

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ryan J. Li

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Myoung Sook Kim

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

William H. Westra

Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David Sidransky

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph A. Califano

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Milton J Dance Jr. Head and Neck Center at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick K. Ha

*pha1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Milton J Dance Jr. Head and Neck Center at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS MK WW DS JC PH. Performed the experiments: CS MT JL WB DG TO AV YA RL JB. Analyzed the data: CS MT AV YA JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB. Wrote the paper: CS MT PH.