About the Authors

Afshin Teymoortash

teymoort@med.uni-marburg.de

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Andreas Pfestroff

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Andrea Wittig

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Nora Franke

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Stephan Hoch

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Susanne Harnisch

Affiliation Center for Clinical Trials, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Carmen Schade-Brittinger

Affiliation Center for Clinical Trials, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Helmut Hoeffken

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Rita Engenhart-Cabillic

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Markus Brugger

Affiliations Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Konstantin Strauch

Affiliations Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT AP AW S. Harnisch CS KS. Performed the experiments: AT AP AW NF S. Hoch RE HH. Analyzed the data: AT AP AW MB KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT AP NF MB KS. Wrote the paper: AT MB KS.