Abstract
Following the publication of this article, the authors have realized that the affiliation for the third author, Feng Liu, was presented incorrectly: Dr Liu is based at the Department of Nephrology at the China‑Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University. Therefore, the author affiliations for this paper should have appeared as follows: Yonggang Wang1, Yao Wang1 and Feng Liu2. Departments of 1Urology and 2Nephrology, China‑Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China. The authors regret that this was not corrected prior to the publication of the paper, and apologize to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 42: 3105‑3114, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2018.3899].