Following the publication of the article, the authors realized that they have overlooked acknowledging the assistance they received from the Murine Phenotyping Core at NHLBI. Therefore, the Acknowledgements section of the Declarations should also have stated the following: 'We would like to thank the Murine Phenotyping Core at NHLBI for all their help with the mouse experiments, including Dr Danielle Springer, Audrey Noguchi, Michele Allen, Heather Potts and Morteza Peiravi.' The authors regret their oversight in failing to include this information in the Acknowledgements section of their paper. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 45: 485‑496, 2020; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2019.4435].