Exp Ther Med 16: [Related article:] 436-444, 2018; DOI:
10.3892/etm.2018.6151
Subsequently to the publication of the article, the
authors have recognized a need to correct some of its content in
order to clarify the accuracy of the article's information.
First, Dr Yongqing Lai should have been included as
the joint corresponding author for this paper. Therefore, the
information in the correspondence box (also including his email
address) should have been as follows (changes are indicated in
bold):
Correspondence to: Professor Liangchao Ni
and Dr Yongqing Lai, Department of Urology, Peking
University Shenzhen Hospital, 1120 Lianhua Road, Shenzhen,
Guangdong 518036, P.R. China
E-mail: lcnord@163.com
E-mail: yqlord@163.com
Secondly, the authors wished to add two new authors
(Canbin Lin and Hang Li) to the paper. Note that all the existing
authors agree to the addition of these new authors; therefore, the
revised author list is as appears above (with the newly added
authors appearing third and fourth in the author list), and the
affiliations should have appeared as follows:
YULIN LAI1,2,5*, JING
QUAN1,3,5*, CANBIN LIN1,4,5, HANG
LI1,5, JIA HU1,2, PEIJIE
CHEN1,4,5, JINLING XU1,5, XIN
GUAN1,5, WEIJIE XU1,5, YONGQING
LAI1,5 and LIANGCHAO NI1,5
1Department of Urology, Peking University
Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518036; 2Graduate
School, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511436;
3Graduate School, Anhui Medical University, Anhui Hefei
230032; 4Graduate School, Shantou University Medical
College, Shantou, Guangdong 515041; 5The Guangdong and
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics,
Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Institute of Urology of
Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518036, P.R.
China
* Contributed equally
Lastly, the authors inadvertently omitted the
reference number for the funding received from the ‘San-ming’
Project of Medicine in Shenzhen: The ref. no. should have appeared
as SZSM201612066.
The authors regret that these errors and omissions
were not corrected prior to the publication of the paper, and
apologize to the readership for the inconvenience caused.
