Author Correction: Trans-ancestry transcriptome-wide association and functional studies to uncover novel susceptibility genes and therapeutic targets for colorectal cancer

1. These authors contributed equally: Lijuan Wang, Lidan Hu, Jing Sun.

2. These authors jointly supervised this work: Lidan Hu, Malcolm Dunlop, Evropi Theodoratou, Xue Li.

Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Public Health, the Second affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

   Lijuan Wang, Jing Sun, Jianhui Zhao, Siyun Zhou, Dan Zhou & Xue Li

2. Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

   Lijuan Wang & Evropi Theodoratou

3. Department of Nephrology, The Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China

   Lidan Hu, Lexin Liu & Wei Yu

4. Department of Colorectal Surgery and Oncology, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, Ministry of Education, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

   Yeting Hu & Kefeng Ding

5. Division of Psychiatry, University College of London, London, UK

   Xiangrui Meng

6. Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China

   Zhongshang Yuan

7. Department of Pathology and Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

   Honghe Zhang

8. Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

   Susan Farrington, Maria Timofeeva & Malcolm Dunlop

9. Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

   Maria Timofeeva

10. Center for Medical Research and Innovation in Digestive System Tumors, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou, China

    Kefeng Ding

11. Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for CANCER, Hangzhou, China

    Kefeng Ding

12. School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Julian Little

13. Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Evropi Theodoratou

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Lidan Hu or Xue Li.

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