About the Authors

Yi An

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi An, Alan Kiang

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Alan Kiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi An, Alan Kiang

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jay Patrick Lopez

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Selena Z. Kuo

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael Andrew Yu

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Eric L. Abhold

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jocelyn S. Chen

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jessica Wang-Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Weg M. Ongkeko

rongkeko@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WMO YA AK. Performed the experiments: YA AK JPL MAY ELA JSC SZK. Analyzed the data: WMO YA AK JPL MAY ELA JSC JWR SZK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WMO JWR. Wrote the paper: YA AK.