Correction to: Oncogenesis (2016) 5, e197; doi:10.1038/oncsis.2016.1; published online 15 February 2016

Following the online publication of this article, the authors noticed that H Yu had been incorrectly referenced in the author list. Please note that Z Fan, H Cui, H Yu and Q Ji contributed equally to this article.

This error has now been rectified.

The authors apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.