Correction to: Oncogene (2014) 33, 3183–3194; doi:10.1038/onc.2013.273; published online 15 July 2013

Since the publication of this article The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has reported that they did not approve the inclusion of their name as co-author in the author list. TCGA has requested that ‘TCGA Research Network’ be removed from the author list. The corrected author list is shown above.