Correction to: Journal of Human Genetics (2009) 54, 581–588; doi:10.1038/jhg.2009.81; published online 21 August 2009

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors noticed an error within the Results and Discussion heading, under the subheading ‘Phylogenetic analysis based on frequency distributions of DNA sequence type’.

The correct sentence is given below:

In all, 5, 2, 1, 22, 1 and 3 individuals from the 2500-year-old Linzi site belonged to groups I, II, III, IV, V and VI, respectively.

Our typesetters would like to apologize for this mistake.