Correction to: Oncogene advanced online publication 9 November 2015; doi:10.1038/onc.2015.423

Since the online publication of this article the authors noticed that grant number 81172307 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China had not been included in the Acknowledgements. Grant number 81172307 has now been added.

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.