Erratum to: Hum Genet DOI 10.1007/s00439-009-0709-7

Unfortunately, the online published article contains errors in the author name and figure legends. The author name should be spelt as Maj Hultén.

At the end of each figure legend the following text should be added:

Fig. 1 Reproduced with permission from Hultén M, Baker H, Tankimanova M (2005) Meiosis and meiotic errors. In: Jorde LB, Little PFR, Dunn MJ, Subramaniam S (eds) Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics (online edition). Wiley, Chichester

Fig. 2a Revised from Tease C, Hartshorne GM, Hultén MA (2002) Patterns of meiotic recombination in human fetal oocytes. Am J Hum Genet 70:1469–1479.

Fig. 2b Revised from Barlow AL, Hultén MA (1998) Combined immunocytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic analysis of meiosis I oocytes from normal human females. Zygote 1:27–38

Fig. 3 Reproduced with permission from Hultén MA, Tease C (2003) Genetic maps; direct meiotic analysis. In: Cooper DN (ed) Nature encyclopedia of the human genome. Nature Publishing Group, London, pp 882–887

Fig. 4 Revised from Barlow AL, Benson FE, West SC, Hultén MA (1997) Distribution of the Rad51 recombinase in human and mouse spermatocytes. EMBO J 16:5207–5215