Table I.

Clinical characteristic of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

A, Upward
ID	WES	Sex	Age, years	T stagea	N stagea	M stagea	WHO typeb
Patient 1	Yes	Male	66	4	0	0	II
Patient 2	Yes	Male	42	3	1	0	II
Patient 3	Yes	Male	59	3	1	0	II
Patient 4	Yes	Male	55	3	1	0	II
Patient 5	Yes	Male	68	4	1	0	II
Patient 6	Yes	Male	53	4	1	0	II
Patient 7	Yes	Male	54	4	0	0	II
Patient 8	Yes	Male	67	4	1	0	II
Patient 9	No	Male	49	4	1	0	II
Patient 10	No	Male	78	4	1	0	II
Patient 11	No	Male	62	4	1	0	II
Patient 12	No	Female	54	3	1	0	II
Patient 13	No	Male	62	3	1	0	II
Patient 14	No	Female	44	4	1	0	I
Patient 15	No	Male	73	4	0	0	II
B, Downward
ID	WES	Sex	Age, years	T stagea	N stagea	M stagea	WHO typeb
Patient 16	Yes	Male	63	1	2	0	II
Patient 17	Yes	Male	53	1	3	0	II
Patient 18	Yes	Male	54	1	3	1	II
Patient 19	Yes	Male	83	1	3	0	II
Patient 20	No	Female	44	1	3	0	I

^aBased on the 8th edition of AJCC nasopharyngeal carcinoma staging

^bWHO types: I, keratinized squamous cell carcinoma; II, non-keratinized carcinoma. WES, whole exon sequencing; T, tumor; N, node; M, metastasis.