About the Authors

Lin Quan Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Quan Tang, Dong Peng Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Dong Peng Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Quan Tang, Dong Peng Hu

Affiliation ZhongShan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Qiu Yan Chen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Lu Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiao Ping Lai

Affiliation ZhongShan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yun He

Affiliation ZhongShan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yun-Xiu-Xiu Xu

Affiliation ZhongShan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Shi-Hua Wen

Affiliation ZhongShan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yu-Tuan Peng

Affiliation ZhongShan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Wen-Hui Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Shan-Shan Guo

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Li-Ting Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chao-Nan Qian

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiang Guo

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Mu-Sheng Zeng

zengmsh@mail.sysu.edu.cn (MSZ); maihq@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HQM)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hai-Qiang Mai

zengmsh@mail.sysu.edu.cn (MSZ); maihq@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HQM)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQT DPH. Performed the experiments: DPH QYC LZ XPL YH YXXX SHW YTP WHC SSG LTL. Analyzed the data: DPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSZ HQM CNQ XG. Wrote the paper: DPH.