About the Authors
- Wei Cao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cao, Rachel de Oliveira Ribeiro
Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Rachel de Oliveira Ribeiro
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cao, Rachel de Oliveira Ribeiro
Current address: Instituto do cancer Dr Arnaldo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Diane Liu
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Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Pierre Saintigny
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Ronghui Xia
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Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Yuwen Xue
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Current address: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Ruxian Lin
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Affiliation Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Li Mao
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Affiliations Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Hening Ren
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* E-mail: Hren@umaryland.edu
Affiliations Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HR LM. Performed the experiments: WC ROR RHX RXL YWX. Analyzed the data: DL WC ROR HR LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL PS LM HR. Wrote the paper: HR LM WC.