About the Authors

Min Pan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ MP and HS contributed equally to this work. PB and OG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Henrik Schinke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ MP and HS contributed equally to this work. PB and OG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Elke Luxenburger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Gisela Kranz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Julius Shakhtour

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Darko Libl

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Yuanchi Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Aljaž Gaber

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Miha Pavšič

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Brigita Lenarčič

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Julia Kitz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany

Mark Jakob

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Sabina Schwenk-Zieger

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Martin Canis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Julia Hess

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group “Personalized Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer“, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, Research Unit Radiation Cytogenetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Kristian Unger

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group “Personalized Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer“, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, Research Unit Radiation Cytogenetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Philipp Baumeister

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ MP and HS contributed equally to this work. PB and OG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group “Personalized Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer“, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Olivier Gires

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Olivier.gires@med.uni-muenchen.de

‡ MP and HS contributed equally to this work. PB and OG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group “Personalized Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer“, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.