Erratum to: Int Urol Nephrol 45(2):485–494 DOI 10.1007/s11255-012-0263-4

Authors would like to report that they have observed a problem of allele flipping with one of the variants, rs73885319, accounted in their published paper. Specifically, the minor allele was incorrectly called as “A” instead of “G”. Authors repeated the statistical analyses with the corrected allele assignment and confirmed that estimates are unchanged from those reported in the paper.

In Table 2, the coded (minor) allele for rs73885319 should be allele “G”, not “A”. In Table 3, the APOL1 SNPs haplotypes should be “G–G–G” (not G–A–G), “A–A–T” (not A–G–T), “G–A–T” (not G–G–T), “G–G” (not A–G), and “A–T” (not G–T). In Figure 1, the haplotypes should be “GGG” (not GAG), “GAT” (not GGT), and “AAT” (not AGT). On page 492, 2nd paragraph, the first line should read “We noted that the risk allele in the current sample is the same for rs73885319 as previously reported”.