Nature Communications 8: Article number: 15870 (2017); Published online 19 June 2017; Updated 30 March 2018

In the original version of this Article, the affiliation details for Yan Huang and Li Zhang were incorrectly given as ‘Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China’, and should have been ‘State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China’. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.