Updates are available Correction dated 2020-04-17

Article History

Received: 25 October 2019

Revised: 27 January 2020

Accepted: 12 February 2020

First Online: 5 March 2020

Change Date: 17 April 2020

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-0855-1

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Tumour biopsies were collected from patients according to a standard protocol approved by the University of Padua ethics committee and upon signing an informed consent. This study was performed in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. The cell lines employed were purchased by the ATCC, Rockville, MD, USA.

: All informed consents were obtained. This report does not contain any individual person’s information.

: Clinical information, mRNA and miRNA sequencing data of 459 patients affected by colon adenocarcinoma are available in the TCGA-Data portal (ExternalRef removed). Protein expression analysis of TCGA-COAD cohort was performed by downloading level 4 data from theExternalRef removedportal. Data on our cohort’s patients are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This work was partially founded by Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) (grant #8797 to P.C.; MFAG #17568 to F.B.; fellowship #19548 to T.C); the Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2016-02363975 and CLEARLY to F.B.); European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD/JDRF/Lilly Programme 2016) and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation-JDRF (n. 2-SRA-2018-479-S-B) to MG; European Research Council Grant - ERC (“menTORingTregs” n. 310496) and Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla - FISM (n. 2016/R/18) to GM; Research grants from University of Sannio to V.C. and L.S.