About the Authors

Anping Xia

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Yohan Song

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Rosalie Wang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Simon S. Gao

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Will Clifton

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patrick Raphael

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sung-il Chao

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea

Fred A. Pereira

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Andrew K. Groves

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John S. Oghalai

joghalai@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AX FAP AKG JSO. Performed the experiments: AX YS RW SG WC PR SC. Analyzed the data: AX YS RW SG JSO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR. Wrote the paper: AX YS RW SSG JSO.