Following the publication of this article, the authors have realized that Table I contained an error: The number of patients who were alive in the Rab22a high expression group should have been written as 77 instead of 772.<br />A corrected version of the Table is shown on the next page (the corrected datum is highlighted in bold). The authors sincerely apologize for the error that was introduced during the preparation of this Table, and regret any inconvenience that this mistake has caused. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 45: 1037-1046, 2020; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2020.4486].