Correction to: Nature Communications; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04617-7; published online 07 June 2018

In the original version of this Article, the affiliation details for Fan Yang incorrectly included ‘Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Jena, 07745, Germany’. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.