About the Authors

Yen-Li Lo

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Harn Pan

pan@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (WHP); chencj@gate.sinica.edu.tw (CJC)

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Wan-Lun Hsu

Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Yin-Chu Chien

Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Jen-Yang Chen

Affiliations National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Chunan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Mow-Ming Hsu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Jen Lou

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

I-How Chen

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Allan Hildesheim

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chien-Jen Chen

pan@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (WHP); chencj@gate.sinica.edu.tw (CJC)

Affiliations Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJC AH. Performed the experiments: WHP. Analyzed the data: YLL WHP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYC. Wrote the paper: YLL. Acquisition of data: CJC WHP JYC MMH PJL IHC. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: WHP CJC AH WLH YCC.