Correction to: Hou et al. BMC Bioinformatics (2021) 22:553 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04463-3

Following the publication of the original article [1], the authors would like to correct the sentence under the heading Implementation.

The sentences currently reads:

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    Fit a linear mixed-effect model by reweighted least squares;

The sentences should read:

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    Fit a linear mixed-effect model by restricted maximum likelihood;

The original article [1] has been corrected.