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Since the publication of the above paper, as a result of further analyses on the cohort, the authors have identified an error in the coding of the milk and egg consumption for some families. This occurred because the Boyd Orr childhood dietary data record family consumption in weekly amounts and the database used in recoding dietary intake for …