Correction to: Oncogenesis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41389-017-0005-7, published online 22 December 2017

The Editor in Chief has retracted this article. After publication the authors reviewed this study and found errors which the authors then contacted the journal about in order to correct. However, due to the irregularities in figures 1A, 2G, 6C and E, figure 7 and supplementary figure 7B and 7D the Editor in Chief does not have confidence in the reliability of the results within this article.

L-L Zuo, J Zhang, L-Z Liu, Q Zhou, S-J Du, S-Y Xin, Z-P Ning, J Yang, W-X Yue, J Wang, F-X Zhu, G-Y Li and J-H Lu agree to this retraction. The editor was not able to obtain a current email address for H-B Yu.