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The author names and affiliations were published incorrectly; the correct version is as follows:

Pia Huusko1,2,11, Suh-Hang Hank Juo3,4,11, Elizabeth Gillanders1,11, Laura Sarantaus5,11, Tommi Kainu1, Pia Vahteristo5, Minna Allinen2, MaryPat Jones1, Katrin Rapakko2, Hannaleena Eerola5,6, Carol Markey1, Paula Vehmanen5, Derek Gildea1, Diane Freas-Lutz1, Carl Blomqvist6, Jaakko Leisti2, Guillermo Blanco7, Ulla Puistola8, Jeffrey Trent9, Joan Bailey-Wilson3, Robert Winqvist2, Heli Nevanlinna5 and Olli-P Kallioniemi*,9,10

1Cancer Genetics Branch, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Department of Clinical Genetics, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; 3Inherited Disease Research Branch, NHGRI, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4Columbia Genome Center, New York, NY, USA; 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 6Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 7Department of Oncology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; 8Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; 9Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA; 10VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Turku, Finland

In the Materials and methods; Genotyping section; a sentence was published incorrectly, the correct text is as follows:

‘For fine mapping, an additional set of 34 markers, spanning a 40 cM chromosomal region from 2q24 to 2q33, was used (Figure 2) (www.marshfieldclinic.org).’

In the Acknowledgements section, the following acknowledgement was missing: Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.