Correction to: Nature Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01152-6. Published online 8 August 2022.

In the version of this article originally published, the sixth paragraph of the Discussion did not include the following text: “Moreover, Dykes et al.47 [J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 114, 29–37 (2018)] presented preliminary evidence that in primitive murine erythroid cells HIC2 may repress the premature activation of definitive type hemoglobin, in agreement with our findings in human cells.” The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.