Departments of * Pathology
†Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases
§Research Programs Unit, Translational Cancer Biology
††Research Programme in Systems Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki
Departments of ∥Surgery
**Otorhinolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital
#Medical Informatics and Data Analysis Research Group, University of Oulu
§§Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu
∥∥Institute of Biomedicine, Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
‡Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, King Saud University College of Dentistry, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
¶Department of Oral Diagnosis, School of Dentistry, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
‡‡Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
¶¶Institute of Dentistry, University of Misurata, Misurata, Libya
T.S., I.L., and A.A. contributed equally.
Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: This study was funded by Turku University Hospital Fund, Helsinki University Hospital Research Fund, the Finnish Dental Society, the Rauha Ahokas Foundation, K. Albin Johanssons Foundation, the Sigrid Juselius Foundation, the Finnish Cancer Society, Finska Läkaresällskapet, and the Maritza and Reino Salonen Foundation. The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial companies pertaining to this article.
Correspondence: Alhadi Almangush, DDS, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3 (P.O. Box 21), Helsinki FIN-00014, Finland (e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]).
