After the publication of this work [1], it was brought to the authors’ attention that the author list on the final manuscript was incomplete.
It read as Samir Sulemane, Vasileios F. Panoulas, Klio Konstantinou, Athanasios Bratsas, Frederick W. Tam, Edwina A. Brown and Petros Nihoyannopoulos.
The correct author list should have included Dr Graspa and is now included here.
Samir Sulemane, Vasileios F. Panoulas, Klio Konstantinou, Athanasios Bratsas, Julia Graspa, Frederick W. Tam, Edwina A. Brown and Petros Nihoyannopoulos.
Acknowledgement
Samir Sulemane received a doctoral research grant from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) under the grant number SFRH/BD/73646.
Footnotes
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s12947-016-0053-8.
The online version of the original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-016-0053-8.
Competing interests
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
Authors’ contributions
All authors made significant contributions and participated sufficiently in the present manuscript. SS, VP, JG, AB and PN were involved in the conception of the study. SS, VP, KC and AB were involved in recruitment, data collection, data (statistical) analysis and were also involved in the writing process and critical analyses. FT and EB were involved in the recruitment process and manuscript review. PN was involved in all aspects of this manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Reference
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