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Following the publication of the above paper, the authors wish to publish a Corrigendum to account for a necessary change in the authorship on the paper. Dr Xiaopeng Zhou requested that his name be removed from the paper on account of having left the research group for personal reasons, and given that he only participated in a part of the translation work in this study. The other authors have acceded to his request; therefore, the revised authors' names on this paper, together with their affiliations, are as follows: ZHENGKUAN XU, HAO LI, QIXIN CHEN and GANG CHEN, Department of Orthopedics, 2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009, P.R. China. The authors are grateful to the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine for allowing them the opportunity to publish this Corrigendum, and apologize for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 43: 1179‑1192, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2018.4038].