Correction to: Analysis of QTL–allele system conferring drought tolerance at seedling stage in a nested association mapping population of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] using a novel GWAS procedure

In the third sentence of “SNP calling and SNPLDB assembly” in “Materials and methods” of the published manuscript, four numbers related to the DNA sequencing data are not correct. The error does not affect any results and conclusions of the article. The four incorrect numbers are 1144.56, 110.87, 3.86 and 4.57, while the correct numbers should be 1219.6, 101.1, 4.4 × and 3.7, respectively, and the correct sentence is given below.