Erratum to: Genetic diversity of a large set of horse breeds raised in France assessed by microsatellite polymorphism

Abstract

After the recent publication of our article (Leroy, Genetics Selection Evolution 2009 41:5), we found several errors in the published Table Three, concerning the computation of contribution to withinbreed diversity (CW). We apologize to the readers for these errors, which are corrected in the present erratum. Table Three (see Table 1 of this erratum) of our recently published paper [1] contains several errors. Here we present the corrected version of Table Three (see Table 2 of this erratum) and explain the new data. The authors regret the errors. Correction Results Partition of diversityErrors concern the computation of the CW component developed by Ollivier and Foulley [2]. In the new version, CW ranged from -1 to 0.78. As aggregate diversity D is defined as a linear combination of CW and contribution to between-breed diversity, column D had also to be corrected, and ranged from -0.30 to 1.18. Consequently, the Pearson correlation between CW and ΔGD WS was found to be -1 (instead of -0.72 in the previous version), and the Pearson correlation between D and ΔGD T was found to be -0.59 (P = 0.008).