Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 9905; published online: 30 April 2015; updated: 15 July 2015

In the original version of this Article, the Abstract contains a typographical error.

“A significant association between XRCC1-Arg280His and prostate cancer risk was found under a heterozygote model, a recessive model and a dominant model.”

should read:

“A significant association between XRCC1-Arg280His and prostate cancer risk was found under a heterozygote model and a dominant model.”

In addition, there is a typographical error in the corresponding author’s email address: ‘qlin1998@163.com’ should read ‘fqlin1998@163.com’.

These have now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the Article.