Researchers at University of Queensland Discuss Findings in Genetics (Author Correction: Repurposing large health insurance claims data to estimate genetic and environmental contributions in 560 phenotypes)

2019 JUL 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on Life Science Research - Genetics are discussed in a new report. According to news originating from Brisbane, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In the version of this article initially published, in Fig. 4b, the shared environmental variance © values for all MaTCH functional domains except ‘all traits’ were erroneously estimated because of a coding error. Figure 4 has been revised to include corrected c estimates in the data in panel b as well as the number of phenotypes in CaTCH and MaTCH functional domains in the y axes of panels a and b; the Fig. 4 legend and the description of Fig. 4b in the Results section have also been revised to describe these changes.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Queensland, “In addition, the erroneous term ‘depravity index’, appearing throughout the article’s main text, Fig. 1, Supplementary Fig. 10 and the Supplementary Note, should have read ‘deprivation index’. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Images of the original figure are shown in the correction notice.”

For more information on this research see: Author Correction: Repurposing large health insurance claims data to estimate genetic and environmental contributions in 560 phenotypes. Nature Genetics, 2019;51(4):764-765. Nature Genetics can be contacted at: Nature Publishing Group, 345 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010-1707, USA. (Nature Publishing Group - http://www.nature.com/; Nature Genetics - http://www.nature.com/ng/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from P.M. Visscher, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Additional authors for this research include B.T. Tierney, A.K. Manrai, J. Yang, P.M. Visscher and C.J Patel.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0377-z. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Nature Genetics is: Nature Publishing Group, 345 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010-1707, USA.

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