Author Correction: Distinguishing genetic correlation from causation across 52 diseases and complex traits

Luke J O'Connor; Alkes L Price

doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0296-4

Author Correction: Distinguishing genetic correlation from causation across 52 diseases and complex traits

Nat Genet. 2018 Dec;50(12):1753. doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0296-4.

Authors

Luke J O'Connor^{1

2}, Alkes L Price^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. loconnor@g.harvard.edu.
² Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA. loconnor@g.harvard.edu.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. aprice@hsph.harvard.edu.
⁴ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. aprice@hsph.harvard.edu.
⁵ Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. aprice@hsph.harvard.edu.

PMID: 30401984
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0296-4

Abstract

In the version of this article originally published, there were errors in equations. In the HTML and PDF, the initial term of equation 10 was estimated GCP but should have been estimated standard error, while a 'hat' was missing from the first alpha in the second term of the expression at the end of the paragraph following equation (6) in the Methods. In addition, in the abstract in the PDF, a subscript 1 was used instead of a subscript 2 for the final term of the first fourth-moment expression. These errors have been corrected in the HTML, PDF and print versions of the paper.

Publication types

Published Erratum