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Correction to: Detect tissue heterogeneity in gene expression data with BioQC

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Correction

After the publication of this work [1], a mistake was noticed in the Eq. 1. Given an m  ×  n expression matrix with m genes and samples of n tissues, the correct definition of the Gini index for gene i is:

$$ {G}_i=\frac{1}{n}\left(n+1-2\left(\frac{\sum_{j=1}^n\left(n+1-j\right){x}_{ij}^{\prime }}{\sum_{j=1}^n{x}_{ij}^{\prime }}\right)\right), $$
(1)

where \( {x}_{ij}^{\prime } \) is the jth value in the non-descending ordered vector of xi(i = 1, …, m, j = 1, …, n). In the original version of the manuscript, the variable j in the parentheses of the nominator was erroneously written as i.

The authors apologize for the mistake and thank Mr. Tao Fang for pointing out this mistake.

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  1. Zhang JD, et al. Detect tissue heterogeneity in gene expression data with BioQC. BMC Genomics. 2017;18:277. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3661-2.

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Zhang, J.D., Hatje, K., Sturm, G. et al. Correction to: Detect tissue heterogeneity in gene expression data with BioQC. BMC Genomics 19, 558 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4940-2

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