Correction: The Genetic Correlation between Height and IQ: Shared Genes or Assortative Mating?

@article{Keller2014CorrectionTG,
  title={Correction: The Genetic Correlation between Height and IQ: Shared Genes or Assortative Mating?},
  author={Matthew C. Keller and Christine E. Garver-Apgar and Margaret J. Wright and Nicholas G. Martin and Robin P. Corley and Michael C. Stallings and John K Hewitt and Brendan P. Zietsch and Jonathan K. Pritchard},
  journal={PLoS Genetics},
  year={2014},
  volume={10}
}
The first sentence under the heading ‘‘The genetic correlation between height and IQ: Shared genes or assortative mating?’’ in the Results section is incorrect and should read ‘‘We estimate that the additive genetic correlation between height and IQ is .13 in males :08= ffiffiffiffiffiffi :59 p | ffiffiffiffiffiffi :69 p and .22 in females :15= ð ffiffiffiffiffiffi :65 p | ffiffiffiffiffiffi :70 p Þ, and these estimates were highly significant (x(3) = 47.4, p = 2.8e-10).’’ 
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