Correction to: Leukemia (2012) 26, 1419–1422; doi:10.1038/leu.2011.352

Since the publication of this article the authors have noticed errors within the original text of the manuscript. Allele nomenclature of some SNP have been wrongly reported with the name of the two homozygous group inverted, as illustrated in the example below:

Readers should apply the corrections explained in the example above to the following polymorphisms:

Table 2 : rs10264990.

Table 2 Significant associations of ABCB1 SNPs rs10264990 and rs17327442 with MM risk in the overall population
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Supplementary Table II: rs1045642, rs2235074, rs3842, rs7787082, rs10276499, rs9282564, rs10264990, rs12334183*, rs12505410, rs13120400, rs3109823, rs3114018, rs4148157, rs2054576, rs2725248, rs2725256, rs2756109, rs4077146, rs8187710, rs7476245, rs3740073, rs212091, rs4793665, rs11568591.

*For the polymorphism rs12334183 the alleles should be C and T instead of G and T.

Supplementary Tables IV, V and VI: rs10276499, rs9282564, rs10264990, rs3109823, rs11568591.

Supplementary Figure 1: rs10264990.

In the text: the sentence ‘We confirmed in this way the statistically significant association of the T carriers for the rs10264990 with a decreased risk of MM (P=0.015)’ (page 1) refers to C carriers instead of T carriers.

This corrigendum involves exclusively allele nomenclature and does not affect the results reported in the paper nor its conclusions in any way. Genotype groups, OR and P-values remain absolutely correct and unvaried. Nevertheless, this corrigendum will help the readers to avoid misleading usage of the results in further application (that is, meta-analysis) or confutation of the results.

To help the readers, corrected versions of Table 2, Supplementary Tables II, IV, V, VI and Supplementary Figure 1 are provided with this corrigendum.

SNP for which allele nomenclature was changed with respect to the original table or figure are marked in bold and underlined.

The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.