MAP1LC3B and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: In contrast to the aforementioned bioinformatics studies analyzing ATG and other autophagy-associated genes in TCGA-HNSCC data sets, only one study exclusively investigated the prognostic relevance of the expression of an autophagy-associated gene (LC3B) in HPV+ HNSCC in an in-house HNSCC patient cohort (Lai et al. 2018).