Correction

After publication of this work [1], it has come to our attention that there is an error in the author list of the initial version of this manuscript; rather than Ernest J Lam, the second author of the manuscript should be listed as Ernest T Lam.

We publish this correction to update the author list with this information. The correct author list is as follows:

Gunjan D Hariani, Ernest T Lam, Tammy Havener, Pui-Yan Kwok, Howard L McLeod, Michael J Wagner and Alison A Motsinger-Reif

This error was introduced during the final production process and the editors of BMC Research Notes apologise for any inconvenience caused.