Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics (2012) 20, 224–229; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2011.160; published online 7 September 2011

The authors would like to make the following amendments:

The following sentence in the Materials and Methods section: ‘Furthermore, we genotyped the mutation R553H, previously found in a large Pakistani family with severe speech and language disorder’ should read: ‘Furthermore, we genotyped the mutation R553H, previously found in a large English Caucasian family with severe speech and language disorder.’

Also, in the Discussion section, the sentence: ‘We selected FOXP2-tagging SNPs and the coding-variant R553H, a mutation initially found to be associated with severe speech and language disorder in a Pakistani family by Lai et al.’ should read: ‘We selected FOXP2-tagging SNPs and the coding-variant R553H, a mutation initially found to be associated with severe speech and language disorder in an English Caucasian family by Lai et al.

The authors would like to sincerely apologise for this error and to thank Simon Fisher for drawing their attention to it.