Correction to: Oncogene (2015) 34, 1698–1708; doi:10.1038/onc.2014.102; published online 21 April 2014

The authors wish to add H Farghaly, originally included in the Acknowledgements, to the authorship of this article, published online 21 April 2014. Dr Farghaly was omitted from the byline at final submission due to communication impediments outside the authors’ control during the manuscript review period which were shortly thereafter resolved.

The authorship should read as follows: MA Macha1, S Rachagani1, P Pai1, S Gupta1, WM Lydiatt2, RB Smith2, SL Johansson3, SM Lele3, SS Kakar4, H Farghaly4, JH Lee5, J Meza6, AK Ganti7, M Jain1 and SK Batra1,8,9. This has now been updated in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article.

1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

2Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

3Department of Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

4Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

5Sanford ENT-Head and Neck Surgery, Sanford Cancer Research Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

6Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

7Department of Internal Medicine, VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

8Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

9Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA