The authors of a recently published article (1) have alerted the Journal to an omission in their affiliations. The correct affiliations paragraph follows.
Author affiliations: Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland (Christina Persson); Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (Christina Persson); Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal (Paulo Canedo, José Machado); Department of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Emad El-Omar); Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom (David Forman); and International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (David Forman).
The authors and the Journal regret this oversight.
References
- 1.Persson C, Canedo P, Machado JC, et al. Polymorphisms in inflammatory response genes and their association with gastric cancer: a HuGE systematic review and meta-analyses. Am J Epidemiol. 2011;173(3):259–270. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwq370. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]