Correction to: Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 19 July 2016; doi:10.1038/mp.2016.101

In the abstract, the P-value of the white matter lesions should have been listed as 3.3 × 10−02. Also in the abstract, the higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease should have been listed as an odds ratio, not an odds ration. In the footnote of Table 3, LDH should have been listed as LDL.