Mol Med Rep 17: [Related article:] 8260–8268, 2018; DOI:
10.3892/mmr.2018.8862
Subsequently to the publication of this paper, an
interested reader drew to the authors’ attention that, in the
“Identification of hub genes for CRC” subsection of the
Results on p. 8263, the left-hand column, in the first sentence the
reference to Matthew's correlation coefficient algorithm should
perhaps have been written as the Maximal Clique Centrality
algorithm. The authors have replied to confirm that, upon carefully
reviewing the paper, the Maximal Clique Centrality algorithm from
the CytoHubba plugin was indeed used to identify the top 20 hub
genes, and that, during the manuscript preparation, the full name
of “MCC” was incorrectly written as “Matthews correlation
coefficient” due to an oversight on their part. Therefore, the
first sentence in this subsection of the Results section should
have read as follows: “To identify potential hub genes among the
306 genes previously identified, the Maximal Clique Centrality
(MCC) algorithm from the CytoHubba software plug-in was
used.”
The authors sincerely apologize for any confusion or
misunderstanding this error may have caused for the readers, and
are grateful to the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports for
granting them the opportunity to publish this corrigendum.
