The role of NANOG was further investigated by a transcriptomic analysis of RNAseq data available from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) HNSCC cohorts [19], using the platforms cBioPortal (http://cbioportal.org/) [20] and UALCAN (http://ualcan.path.uab.edu/) [21]. Here, NANOG is linked to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.