Correction to: Nature Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0224-7, published online 24 September 2018.

In the version of this paper originally published, there was a typographical error. In the Discussion, the sentence “In line with this, Ep-CAM-deficient mice exhibited increased intestinal permeability and decreased ion transport60, which may contribute to CVD susceptibility risk59” originally read iron instead of ion transport. This error has been corrected in the HTML, PDF and print versions of the article.