Correction to: Oncogene (2012) 31, 4859–4867; doi:10.1038/onc.2011.647; published online 23 January 2012

Since the publication of the above manuscript, the authors have identified an error in the author list; M Vigny and P Mazot were inadvertently omitted. The corrected author list is shown above.

M Vigny and P Mazot are affiliated to Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC, INSERM UMRS-839, Paris, France.