Correction to: Nature Communications; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05550-5; published online 08 August 2018

In the original version of this Article, the sixth sentence of the abstract incorrectly read ‘Most of the genes upregulated and with hypermethylated CGIs in the Alb-R26Met HCC model undergo the same change’, and should have read ‘Most of the genes upregulated and with hypermethylated CGIs in the Alb-R26Met HCC model undergo the same change in a large proportion of HCC patients’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.