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KIF18A is a potential prognostic factor and promotes tumor progression in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

XIAOFEI LV^1,#, XI YU^2,#, JIE XU³, MINGYI WANG⁴, CHENG PENG^1,*

1 Department of Stomatology, the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300211, China
2 Department of Anesthesiology, the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300211, China
3 Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, 300060, China
4 Department of Oral & Maxillofacial-Head & Neck Oncology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center of Stomatology, Shanghai, 200011, China

* Address correspondence to: Cheng Peng,
# These authors have contributed equally to this work