Subsequently to the publication of this article, the authors have realized that the name of the first author was spelt incorrectly: The name was spelt as 'Hao‑jing Wen', whereas the name should have been presented as 'Jing‑wen Hao. The name as it should have appeared in the author list is featured above. The authors regret that this this error was not corrected prior to the publication of the above article, and apologize to the author in question and to the readership for any inconvenience caused.[the original article was published in Molecular Medicine Reports 19: 660‑666, 2019; DOI:10.3892/mmr.2018.9633].