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This article was republished on January 21, 2026, to correct errors that were introduced during the typesetting process. There was an error within the introduction where reference 20 was incorrectly formatted within the text. There was an error within the XML of the paper where a proof comment was erroneously kept. S1 Supplementary Materials is omitted from the list of Supporting Information. It can be viewed below.
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Supporting information
S1. Supplementary Materials.
Extended results, replications, and proofs.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013979.s001
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Reference
Citation: The PLOS Computational Biology Staff (2026) Correction: Transcriptome-wide root causal inference. PLoS Comput Biol 22(2): e1013979. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013979
Published: February 18, 2026
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