Correction to: Journal of Human Genetics (2012) 57, 101–108; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.132; published online 1 December 2011

The authors of the above article noted an error in publication of this paper in Figure 1. The correct figure is shown below.

Figure 1
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Number of ROH versus total length of ROHs in each individual.

The authors would like to apologize for the error. This correction does not affect the rest of the results and their interpretation as discussed in the paper.