Erratum: Meta-analysis of TNF-α promoter −308 A/G polymorphism and SLE susceptibility

Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics (2006) 14, 364–371. doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201566; published online 18 January 2006

The authors have identified an error in the above article. The largest and most powerful study that has been done to date¹ was omitted in Tables 1 and 2. Correa et al¹ was published after the original submission and before the acceptance of a revised version of the above article, and was unfortunately not included in the final article. The data in the study were important for the meta-analysis, and the inclusion of Correa et al's results does not alter the conclusions of the paper, but makes them stronger. The authors regret this error.

Table 1 Characteristics of individual studies included in meta-analysis

Table 2 Meta-analysis of the TNF-α promoter −308 A/G polymorphism and SLE association