Comparison of Promoter Hypermethylation Pattern in Salivary Rinses Collected with and without an Exfoliating Brush from Patients with HNSCC

• Wenyue Sun,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David Zaboli,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yan Liu,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Demetri Arnaoutakis,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Tanbir Khan,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Hao Wang,

  Affiliation Division of Oncology Biostatistics, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Wayne Koch,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Zubair Khan,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joseph A. Califano

  * E-mail: jcalifa@jhmi.edu.

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Milton J. Dance Head and Neck Center, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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