Correction to: Oncogene (2016) 35, 691–701; doi:10.1038/onc.2014.469; published online 2 February 2015

Since the online publication of this article we have amended CV Pecot’s name to include the author’s middle initial.

The authors apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.

This error has now been rectified, and the corrected article appears in this issue. The html and online pdf versions have also been rectified, and now carry the corrected paper.