Correction to: Nature Communications; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03264-2; published online 9 March 2018

The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Miriam Gaggianesi, which was incorrectly given as Miriam Giaggianesi. Furthermore, the affiliation details for Gabriella Gaudioso, Valentina Vaira and Silvano Bosari incorrectly omitted ‘Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, 20122, Italy’. Finally, the affiliation details for Alice Turdo, Miriam Gaggianesi, Aurora Chinnici and Elisa Lipari were incorrectly given as ‘Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Legale Sezione di Biochimica Medica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Policlinico “P.Giaccone”, Università di Palermo, Palermo, 90127, Italy’. The correct affiliation is ‘Department of Surgical, Oncological and Stomatological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90127, Italy’. These errors have now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.