Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00686-8, published online 27 June 2017

In the original version of this Article, affiliation 2 was inadvertently included. The correct affiliations are listed below:

Department of Nephrology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, No. 1 Minde Road, Nanchang, 330006, P.R. China.

Hong-hong Zou, Ping-ping Yang, Tian-lun Huang & Gao-si Xu

Department of Medicine, the George Washington University, Washington, DC20052, USA.

Xiao-xu Zheng

This error has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.