Correction to: Hum Genomics (2019) 13:7

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40246-019-0195-5

In the original publication of this article [1], the colors of the Fig. 1 are wrong, and are revised in the updated figure below:

Fig. 1
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The genotype–phenotype correlation in the merged Iranian population

Also, the number for the award to A. Esmailizadeh during his visit to Chinese Academy of Sciences by Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative was wrong in the Acknowledgments section, and the right number should be No. 2016VBA050.