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Correction to: Self-reported race/ethnicity in the age of genomic research: its potential impact on understanding health disparities

Human Genomics volume 15, Article number: 35 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 07 January 2015

Correction to: Hum Genomics 9, 1 (2015)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40246-014-0023-x

Following the publication of the original article [1], an error for reference 69 citation was identified. Reference 69 (Salas A, Carracedo A, Richards M, Macaulay V. Charting the ancestry of African Americans. Am J Hum Genet. 2005;77(4):676–80) referred to a wrong article and was replaced by the following citation:

Kodaman N, Aldrich MC, Smith JR, et al. A small number of candidate gene SNPs reveal continental ancestry in African Americans. Ann Hum Genet. 2013;77(1):56-66.

Also, in the Conclusion section, the word “more” before "accurately" was missing and should be read as: Genetic ancestry can describe genetic relatedness more accurately than race and ethnicity.

The original article [1] has been corrected.

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  1. Mersha TB, Abebe T. Self-reported race/ethnicity in the age of genomic research: its potential impact on understanding health disparities. Hum Genomics. 2015;9:1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40246-014-0023-x.

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  1. Division of Asthma Research, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Tesfaye B. Mersha

  2. Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Tilahun Abebe

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Mersha, T.B., Abebe, T. Correction to: Self-reported race/ethnicity in the age of genomic research: its potential impact on understanding health disparities. Hum Genomics 15, 35 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40246-021-00322-7

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