Network properties of human disease genes with pleiotropic effects

Erratum

Sreenivas Chavali   (2010-10-12 12:20)  The Unit for Clinical Systems Biology, University of Gothenburg

Correction: Network properties of human disease genes with pleiotropic effects
Sreenivas Chavali*†, Fredrik Barrenas†, Kartiek Kanduri, Mikael Benson
The Unit for Clinical Systems Biology, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 5A, Gothenburg SE405 30, Sweden
†Contributed equally
Correspondence: sreenivas.chavali@gu.se

Correction
After publication, it was observed that a correction is warranted in our article [1]. We regret and apologize for this error.
To determine phenotypic divergence we used phenotypic similarity scores as obtained from van Driel et al. 2006 [2] and not CIPHER score [3]. The phenotype similarity scores have been calculated by text mining of OMIM phenotypes using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms. Hence, throughout the article CIPHER score must be read as phenotypic similarity score.

Acknowledgements
We thank and appreciate Xuebing Wu, one of the authors on reference 3, for kindly bringing this error to our notice.

References
1. Chavali S, Barrenas F, Kanduri K, Benson M: Network properties of human disease genes with pleiotropic effects. BMC Syst Biol 2010, 4:78.
2. van Driel MA, Bruggeman J, Vriend G, Brunner HG, Leunissen JA: A text-mining analysis of the human phenome. Eur J Hum Genet 2006, 14:535-542.
3. Wu X, Jiang R, Zhang MQ, Li S: Network-based global inference of human disease genes. Mol Syst Biol 2008, 4:189.

Competing interests

We report no conflicts of interest

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