Correction to: BMC Genetics (2018) 19:4 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-017-0595-2

The original version of this article [1], published on 5 January 2018, contained 3 formatting errors. In this Correction the affected parts of the article are shown. The original article has been updated.

Table 1 contained a formatting error. The correct version of Table 1 is shown below and the corrected entry is marked in bold:

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of simulation schemes
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Table 5 contained a formatting error. The correct version of Table 5 is shown below and the corrected entry is marked in bold:

Table 5 Number of selected SNPs, number of tagged QTL, percentage of genetic variance explained, and accuracies of genomic and phenotype prediction under different π values, sampling distribution for the QTL effects and density of the marker panel using BayesC method. Standard errors of accuracies are listed between parentheses
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The first equation contained formatting errors. The correct version of this equation is shown below:

$$ {F}_{ST}=\frac{H_T-{H}_S}{H_T} $$

with H T  = 2 ∗ p ∗ q, \( {H}_S=\frac{H_{S1}\ast {n}_{S1}+{H}_{S2}\ast {n}_{S2}}{n_{S1}+{n}_{S2}} \), and H Si  = 2 ∗ p Si  ∗ q Si