Corrigendum to “Development of an Italian RM Y-STR haplotype database: Results of the 2013 GEFI collaborative exercise” [Forensic. Sci. Int. Genet. 15 (2015) 56–63]

An inconsistency in the nomenclature used for the rapidly mutating (RM) Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (Y-STR) marker DYS449 was noted in the above paper. In this paper, the DYS449 allele nomenclature introduced by Ballantyne et al. was used, instead of thatdescribed by Redd et al. and subsequently adopted by the International RM Y-STR User Group and in the AMPFlSTR® YFiler Plus kit. To convert from the first to the second nomenclature, a simple correction factor needs to be applied, i.e. subtracting one from the repeat number of every DYS449 allele as described elsewhere