Correction to: Pediatric Research https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-019-0588-0, published online 02 October 2019

In this article, the affiliation details for Author Kikumi Matsuoka were incorrectly given as ‘1Department of Pediatrics, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8550, Japan’ but should have been ‘Department of Biomedical Sciences, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8550, Japan’. The original article has been corrected.