About the Authors

Zhi Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi Zhang, Dianke Yu

Affiliations Department of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy, Tangshan Gongren Hospital, Tangshan, China, Institute of Molecular Genetics, College of Life Science, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Dianke Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi Zhang, Dianke Yu

Affiliation Department of Etiology of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Jie Lu

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Science, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Kan Zhai

Affiliation Department of Etiology of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Lei Cao

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, College of Life Science, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Juan Rao

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, College of Life Science, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Yingwen Liu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, College of Life Science, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Xuemei Zhang

guoyongli@bch.com.cn (YG); jyxuemei@gmail.com (XZ)

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics, College of Life Science, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Yongli Guo

guoyongli@bch.com.cn (YG); jyxuemei@gmail.com (XZ)

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Science, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG XZ. Performed the experiments: ZZ DY. Analyzed the data: KZ LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR YL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JL YG XZ.