Distinctive Expression and Amplification of Genes at 11q13 in Relation to HPV Status with Impact on Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

This study was supported by grants from the Plan Nacional de I+D+I 2013-2016 ISCIII (PI13/00259), RD12/0036/0015 of Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa en Cáncer (RTICC), PI16/00280, and CIBERONC(CB16/12/00390 and CB16/12/00401), CIBER-BBN (CB06/01/1031) Spain, Fundación Merck Salud (17-CC-008), the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), PCTI-Asturias (GRUPIN14-003), Fundación Bancaria Caja de Ahorros de Asturias-IUOPA, and the FEDER Funding Program from the European Union. STM (Sara Borrell Program-CD16/00103) and RR (Miguel Servet II Program-CPII16/00049) were recipients of fellowships from ISCIII.We thank the samples and technical assistance kindly provided by the Principado de Asturias BioBank (PT13/0010/0046), financed jointly by Servicio de Salud del Principado de Asturias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III and Fundación Bancaria Cajastur and integrated in the Spanish National Biobanks Network, and IIB Sant Pau.