Correction to: Genet Sel Evol (2017) 49:71 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-017-0345-y

After publication of this work [1], we noticed that information regarding the university is missing in the affiliation for Bin Yang, Leilei Cui and Lusheng Huang (affiliation 1).

The correct affiliation should be: National Key Laboratory for Pig Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.