Nature Communications 8: Article number: 15921 (2017); Published: 30 June 2017; Updated: 27 September 2017

Contributions of the author Steven R. Patierno are not fully acknowledged in this Article. The Author Contributions section should have included the following:

‘S.R.P. was involved in the co-conception of the study, and was co-principal investigator of the initial portion of this study by obtaining NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities grant supplement U01CA11637-05S2 (to S.R.P.) that supported initial experiments towards differential alternative splicing events, oncogenic splicing pathway, validation of differential alternative splicing and selective knockdown of PIK3CD L and S variants.’