Retraction to: Oncogene (2018) 37:2660–2675 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-018-0162-y, published online 27 February 2018

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this paper. After the initial publication, concerns were raised about a number of figures which were addressed by a correction [1]. Additional concerns were raised, and the authors were asked to provide the underlying data and ethics approval documentation. The data and ethics approval documentation provided by the authors did not match the data presented in the article. The Editors-in-Chief no longer have confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Sui Peng states on behalf of Dong-Liang Chen and Zhi-Wei Zhou that they agree to this retraction. All other authors agree to this retraction.