Correction to: Nature Communications ; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04569-y; published online 22 June 2018

The originally published version of this Article contained an error in the subheading “Microglial GR does not affect DN loss triggered by TLR4 and TLR7”, which was incorrectly given as “Microglial GR does affect DN loss triggered by TLR2 and TLR4.” This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.