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Biomed Rep 10:[Related article:] 331-336, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/br.2019.1209

After the publication of the above paper, the authors noted that the affiliation for the first named author (Meida Fan) was presented incorrectly: Specifically, both of the first two affiliations should have been assigned to Meida Fan, and furthermore, these affiliations should have been presented the other way around. Therefore, the authors' names and affiliations in this paper should have been presented as follows:

MEIDA FAN1,2, SHUANGYAN CAO1, LIUDAN TU1, QIUJING WEI1, RIWEI YUAN1, XUEFENG LI3-5 and JIERUO GU1

1Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630; 2Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515; 3The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Qingyuan People's Hospital, Sino-French Hoffmann Institute, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511436; 4Shenzhen Luohu People's Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518001; 5Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, South China Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510530, P.R. China

The authors regret that this error with the author affiliations for Meida Fan was not noticed prior to the publication of their paper, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.