Correction to: Cancer Gene Therapy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41417-019-0139-1, published online 09 October 2019

In the original version of this Article, the affiliation details for Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China, were not assigned to all of the authors. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.