About the Authors

Nicole Pinto

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

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Stephenie D. Prokopec

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Frederick Vizeacoumar

Roles Resources

Affiliation Cancer Research Cluster, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

Karlee Searle

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Matthew Lowerison

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Kara M. Ruicci

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

John Yoo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Kevin Fung

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Danielle MacNeil

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Jim C. Lacefield

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Hon S. Leong

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Joe S. Mymryk

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

John W. Barrett

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Oncology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Alessandro Datti

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Network Biology Collaborative Centre, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Paul C. Boutros

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul C. Boutros, Anthony C. Nichols

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anthony C. Nichols

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul C. Boutros, Anthony C. Nichols

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Anthony.Nichols@lhsc.on.ca

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Oncology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.