Correction to: BMC Genomics 22, 432 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07745-5

Following publication of the original article [1], it was reported that a number of authors were missing from the authorship list. The following fourteen authors were mistakenly captured as members of the Blood Cell Consortium instead of full authors: Weihong Tang, Lihong Qi, Bharat Thyagarajan, Steve Buyske, Myriam Fornage, Lucia A Hindorff, Yun Li, Danyu Lin, Alexander P Reiner, Kari E North, Ruth J F Loos, Laura M Raffield, Ulrike Peters, Christy L Avery.

They have been added as full authors and the original article has been updated.