Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics (2013) 21, 554–562; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2012.258

The authors regret that the following text was omitted from the Acknowledgements section of their article:

The collections and methods for the Population Reference Sample (POPRES) are described by Nelson et al. (2008). The data sets used for the analyses described in this manuscript were obtained from dbGaP at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000145.v2.p2 through dbGaP accession number phs000145.v2.p2.

This text has now been added and the amended article appears in this issue. The HTML and online versions have also been amended.

The authors would like to apologise for their error.