When, we correlated expression pattern of NF-κB family proteins between HPV+ve and HPV−ve tongue cancer cases, a slightly higher expression of p50, p52 and c-Rel proteins was observed mainly in HPV−ve cases as compared to HPV16+ve TSCCs that selectively overexpressed p65 protein (Figure 3A and Table 1C). Here, NFKB1 is linked to tongue cancer.