It has been highlighted that the original manuscript [1] contains a typesetting error in the surname of Virginia Vandall-Walker. This was incorrectly captured as Virgnia Vandall-Walker in the original manuscript which has since been updated.

The authors regret a spelling mistake in the surname of one of authors. The surname given as ‘Vasilev’ should be ‘Vasiliev’. Furthermore a second affiliation for the author A. D. Vasiliev was inadvertently omitted. The correct spelling and affiliations of all the authors for this paper is as shown above. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience...

Using administrative records from the Social Security Administration this article explores the relationship between surname frequency and lifespan for over 19 million people born in 1910-19 and deceased by 2011—which represent over 80% of the total population born in 191019. People with more frequent surnames had shorter average and median lifespans. Differences in average lifespan between the ...

Hereditary surnames contain information about relatedness within populations. They have been used as crude indicators of population structure and migration events, and to subdivide samples for epidemiological purposes. In societies that use patrilineal surnames, a surname should correlate with a type of Y chromosome, provided certain assumptions are met. Recent studies involving Y-chromosomal h...

This paper reports the ethno-medicinal uses of 30 plants by the Paroja tribes of Koraput, Odisha. All the plants were enumerated with botanical name, family name, local name, short description of the plant and information on ethnic use.

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the original publication, the author's first name has been inverted with surname. The corrected aurthor's name is " Kazutaka KOGI " .

The family name of one of the co-authors, Julian Garcia-Feijoo, was incorrect in the original publication. The correct family name should be Garcia-Feijoo. The original article has been updated accordingly. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4. 0/), which p...

The population of Wales can be divided into two parts, the Welsh and the non-Welsh, who differ in some genetic characters (Ashley and Davies, 1966a) and in their susceptibility to a number of common diseases (Ashley and Davies, 1966b; Ashley, 1966, 1967a, b, c). Both moieties of this population share the environment of the Principality of Wales and have similar occupations and similar social st...

In the author line, the names of the authors appear incorrectly, with the surname first. The correct author line appears above.