About the Authors

Pamela de Oliveira Soares

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

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo / LIM-28—São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Patrícia Maluf Cury

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Legal Medicine–Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil

Rossana Verónica Mendoza López

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Research in Oncology, ICESP- Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Cláudio Roberto Cernea

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo / LIM-28—São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Erika Erina Fukuyama

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Instituto do Câncer Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

David Livingstone Alves Figueiredo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Guarapuava, PR, Brazil

Francisco Gorgonio da Nobrega

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

Affiliation Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

Otavio Alberto Curioni

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital Heliópolis São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Fabio Daumas Nunes

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Raquel Ajub Moyses

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ramccp@gmail.com

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo / LIM-28—São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Maria Lúcia Bueno Garcia

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

on behalf of HEAD AND NECK GENOME PROJECT–GENCAPO

complete membership can be found in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.