About the Authors

Ryan Li

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

Michael F. Ochs

Affiliations Division of Oncology Biostatistics, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, United States of America

Sun Mi Ahn

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

Patrick Hennessey

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

Marietta Tan

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

Ethan Soudry

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

Daria A. Gaykalova

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

Mamoru Uemura

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

Mariana Brait

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

Chunbo Shao

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

William Westra

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

Justin Bishop

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

Elana J. Fertig

Affiliation Division of Oncology Biostatistics, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph A. Califano

jcalifa@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, 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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL MO PH DG MB EF JC. Performed the experiments: RL MO SA PH MT EF. Analyzed the data: RL MO SA MT EF JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL MO ES DG MU MB CS WW JB EF JC. Wrote the paper: RL MO EF JC.