Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2004) 90: 844–852. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6601602

Owing to an author error, the author affiliations in the above paper were shown incorrectly. The correct affiliations are given below:

Y Morimoto1, M Toyota1,2, H Ikeda3, T Tokino2 and K Imai1

1First Department of Internal Medicine, Cancer Research Institute, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan; 2Department of Molecular Biology, Cancer Research Institute, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan; 3Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan