Corrigendum

This article refers to:

Genetic association study of RNF8 and BRDT variants with non-obstructive azoospermia in the Chinese Han population

Article title: “Genetic association study of RNF8 and BRDT variants with non-obstructive azoospermia in the Chinese Han population”

Authors: Yan Zhang, Bing Song, Wei-Dong Du, Xiao-Jin He, Jian Ruan, Fu-Sheng Zhou, Xian-Bo Zuo, Lei Ye, Xu-Shi Xie, and Yun-Xia Cao

Journal: Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Bibliometrics: Volume 61, Issue 1, pages 26–31

DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2014.979513

The authors recently arranged the clinical database of their department and reviewed the clinical data of the panel of the patients with nonobstructive azoospermia used in the article. After having carefully checked, there was, unfortunately, an error on the body mass index (BMI) of the study population in Table 1. The correct BMIs in the controls and the patients should be 23.01 ± 3.11 and 22.91 ± 2.95, respectively, rather than 23.61 ± 3.53 vs. 23.09 ± 3.3 as published in the article. The p value of BMI between the controls and the cases should be 0.665, instead of 0.071, which was listed in Table 1 and the first paragraph of the results section. The corrected Table 1 is printed below.

The authors apologize for this error.

Table 1. Clinical characteristics of the study population.

Characteristic	Controls(n=368)^a	NOA(n=361)^a	p Value
Body mass index (kg/m)^2	23.01 ± 3.11	22.91±2.95	0.665
Right testicle volume (ml)	14.58±2.65	8.90±3.51	0.000
Left testicle volume (ml)	14.51±2.70	8.95±3.55	0.000
FSH	/	21.42±19.88	/

^aContinuous variables were expressed as mean±SD; NOA: non-obstructive azoospermia; /: no data available; FSH: follicle stimulating hormone. Student’s t test was used for the data analysis. Bold values indicated statistical significance (p<0.05).