Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 37284; published online: 17 November 2016; updated: 03 January 2017

The original version of this Article contained an error in the title of the paper, where “Genetic Epidemiology of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in the Arab World” was incorrectly given as “Genetic Epidemiology of Glucose-6-Dehydrogenase Deficiency in the Arab World”. This has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.