Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45081-7, published online 20 June 2019

This Article contains an error in the Discussion section.

“An epidemiological study carried out in SA, characterizing patients by phenotypic characteristics, such as lip thickness and nose shape, skin colour and hair texture, identified that 36.8% of patients with NMO were non-white53.”

should read:

“An epidemiological study carried out in SA, characterizing patients by phenotypic characteristics, such as lip thickness and nose shape, skin colour and hair texture, identified that 53.1% of patients with NMO were non-white53.”