Correction to: Genes & Immunity https://doi.org/10.1038/s41435-018-0019-y; published online 18 March 2018

The original version of this article omitted the corresponding author Mingfang Sun and the author Ying Zhou from the Division of Rheumatology, Research Institute of Surgery, Daping Hospital, the Army Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China.

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