About the Authors

Amrita Bose

Affiliation Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Muy-Teck Teh

Affiliation Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Iain L. Hutchison

Affiliation Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Hong Wan

Affiliation Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Irene M. Leigh

Affiliation Division of Cancer, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Ahmad Waseem

a.waseem@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW MTT. Performed the experiments: AB AW MTT HW. Analyzed the data: AB MTT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ILH IML. Wrote the paper: AW.