Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2006) 94, 1918–1920. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603198

Owing to an author error, G Gilliland was incorrectly named as contributing to this work. The authors would like it to be known that the correct list of authors who contributed was, therefore:

BU Mueller, T Pabst, P Hauser, D Neuberg and DG Tenen.