Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82787-z, published online 04 February 2021


In the original version of this Article, the competing interests statement is incomplete.


The text,


“The authors declare no competing interests.”


Now reads,


“Yukti Choudhury, Chae Yin Cher, Zi Yi Wan, and Min Han Tan are employees of, and affiliated with, Lucence. Y.C. and M.H.T. are shareholders of Lucence; M.H.T. is a director of Lucence. An affiliated entity of Lucence is the applicant of certain patent applications for relevant diagnostics. Y.C., C.Y.C. and/or M.H.T. are named inventors for some of these patent applications. At the time of this research, patents are pending for the next-generation sequencing approach (SG App. No.10202007270P) and the saliva testing process (SG App. No. 10202007826S) discussed in the manuscript.”


This has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.