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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJMR</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Interact J Med Res</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Interactive Journal of Medical Research</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1929-073X</issn>
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        <publisher-name>JMIR Publications</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Toronto, Canada</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/59070</article-id>
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          <subject>Corrigenda and Addenda</subject>
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          <subject>Corrigenda and Addenda</subject>
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        <article-title>Correction: Influence of Environmental Factors and Genome Diversity on Cumulative COVID-19 Cases in the Highland Region of China: Comparative Correlational Study</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Deji</surname>
            <given-names>Zhuoga</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Tong</surname>
            <given-names>Yuantao</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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        <contrib id="contrib3" contrib-type="author">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Huang</surname>
            <given-names>Honglian</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zhang</surname>
            <given-names>Zeyu</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Fang</surname>
            <given-names>Meng</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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        <contrib id="contrib6" contrib-type="author">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Crabbe</surname>
            <given-names>M James C</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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        <contrib id="contrib7" contrib-type="author">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zhang</surname>
            <given-names>Xiaoyan</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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        <contrib id="contrib8" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Wang</surname>
            <given-names>Ying</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
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          <address>
            <institution>Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine Center</institution>
            <institution>Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine</institution>
            <addr-line>110 Ganhe Rd</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Shanghai, 200437</addr-line>
            <country>China</country>
            <fax>86 021 65161782</fax>
            <phone>86 021 65161782</phone>
            <email>nadger_wang@139.com</email>
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          <ext-link ext-link-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1819-294X</ext-link>
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      <aff id="aff1">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution>Research Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University</institution>
        <addr-line>Shanghai</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff2">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution>Information School, The University of Sheffield</institution>
        <addr-line>Sheffield</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
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      <aff id="aff3">
        <label>3</label>
        <institution>Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine Center</institution>
        <institution>Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine</institution>
        <addr-line>Shanghai</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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      <aff id="aff4">
        <label>4</label>
        <institution>Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line>Shanghai</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff5">
        <label>5</label>
        <institution>Wolfson College, Oxford University</institution>
        <addr-line>Oxford</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff6">
        <label>6</label>
        <institution>Institute of Biomedical and Environmental Science &#38; Technology, University of Bedfordshire</institution>
        <addr-line>Bedfordshire</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff7">
        <label>7</label>
        <institution>School of Life Sciences, Shanxi University</institution>
        <addr-line>Shanxi</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp>Corresponding Author: Ying Wang <email>nadger_wang@139.com</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>10</day>
        <month>4</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <elocation-id>e59070</elocation-id>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>1</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>3</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <copyright-statement>©Zhuoga Deji, Yuantao Tong, Honglian Huang, Zeyu Zhang, Meng Fang, M James C Crabbe, Xiaoyan Zhang, Ying Wang. Originally published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research (https://www.i-jmr.org/), 10.04.2024.</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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        <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.i-jmr.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p>
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      <related-article related-article-type="corrected-article" id="v13i1e43585" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/43585" vol="6" page="e43585" xlink:type="simple">https://www.i-jmr.org/2024/1/e43585</related-article>
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    <p>In “Influence of Environmental Factors and Genome Diversity on Cumulative COVID-19 Cases in the Highland Region of China: Comparative Correlational Study” (Interact J Med Res 2024;13:e43585) the authors noted one error.</p>
    <p>In the originally published manuscript, author Zhuoga Deji was noted as having contributed to the manuscript as the first author.</p>
    <p>This has been corrected to note that both authors Zhuoga Deji and Yuantao Tong contributed equally to the manuscript, and they should be regarded as joint first authors.</p>
    <p>The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications Interactive Journal of Medical Research publication website on April 10, 2024, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories.</p>
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