SPARC and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: To enrich for relevance in human HNSCC, we filtered the 13 hits through Oncomine (Rhodes et al., 2007) and the Human Protein Atlas (Uhlen et al., 2010), and discovered four genes (LASP1, NUAK1, SPARC, and THBS2) that were upregulated in HNSCC specimens relative to normal mucosa.