Correction: BMC Biol 16, 72 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0538-z

The original article [1] contains a minor typo in Table 2.

The haplotype motif, MSMO is erroneously displayed several times in both the fourth column of the table and the final line of the table caption.

The motif should instead read as MSOS.