Correction to: Oncogene (2008) 27, 931–941; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1210710; published online 20 August 2007

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by grants from Chinese 973 project (2002CB713700, 2007CB914503, and 2006CBOF0503), Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX1-YW-R65 and KSCX2-YW-H10), Chinese 863 project (2001AA215331), Chinese Ministry of Education (20020358051; 20050358061 and IRT0413 to XD), Chinese Natural Science Foundation (39925018, 30270654, 90508002, 30121001 and 30500183 to XD), American Cancer Society (RPG-99-173-01), National Institutes of Health (DK56292, CA89019, and CA92080) and a GCC Breast Cancer Research Grant to XY. The facilities were supported in part by NIH/NCRR/RCM1 Grant G-12-RR03034. SER and XY are GCC eminent scholars.