Author Correction: A genome-wide cross-trait analysis from UK Biobank highlights the shared genetic architecture of asthma and allergic diseases

Abstract

In the version of this article originally published, there were two errors in the text of the second paragraph of the Methods section. In the sentence "To identify genetic variants that contribute to doctor-diagnosed asthma and allergic diseases (detailed phenotype information described in the Supplementary Note) and link them with other conditions, we performed GWASs using phenotype measures in UK Biobank participants (N = 487,409)" the number of participants should have been 150,509. In the sentence "Thus, a total of 110,361 European descendants with high-quality genotyping and complete phenotype/covariate data were used for these analyses, including 25,685 allergic diseases subjects (hay fever/allergic rhinitis or eczema, without doctor-diagnosed asthma), 14,085 asthma subjects and 76,768 controls for the analysis" the phrase "without doctor-diagnosed asthma" should have read "some with doctor-diagnosed asthma." The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.