L Johnson1, A Luke2, H-W Deng3,4,5, BD Mitchell6, AG Comuzzie7, SA Cole7, J Blangero7, M Perola8,9 and M Dawn Teare1

Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2005) 29, 413–419. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802817

Due to an author error, the authors and affiliation list for the above article were published incorrectly. The correct list of authors and affiliations are reproduced below.

L Johnson1, A Luke2, A Adeyemo3,4, H-W Deng5,6,7,8, BD Mitchell9, AG Comuzzie10, SA Cole10, J Blangero10, M Perola11,12 and MD Teare1*

1Mathematical Modelling and Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK; 2Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA; 3College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; 4Genetic Epidemiology Unit, National Human Genome Center, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA; 5Osteoporosis Research Centre, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA; 6Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA; 7Molecular and Statistical Genetics Lab, Hunan Normal University, ChangSha, China; 8The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; 9Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; 10Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, USA; 11Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and 12Department of Human Genetics, Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Research Centre, University of California-Los Angeles, USA

*Correspondence: Dr MD Teare, Mathematical Modelling and Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK. E-mail: m.d.teare@sheffield.ac.uk