Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics (2009) 17, 187–194; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.147; published online 13 August 2008

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors have identified major errors in Table 1. The amended table is reproduced below.

Table 1 List of mutations identified in the SPAST gene in our HSP cohort

The authors would like to apologise for this mistake.