Int J Legal Med (2001) 116:68–73

Data transcriptional errors have been identified in two sequences from a Japanese mtDNA database that we published in this article. The electronic supplementary table of that paper lists sequences JP059 and JP061 as having an A at position 113. This is incorrect. In both cases, the position should have been listed as 103, with an A transition. A corrected supplementary table is now available (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-004-0499-3), and GenBank sequences with accession numbers AF501144 and AF501214 have also been corrected. We thank Claudio Bravi for alerting us to this error.