The original version of this Article contained an error in Ref. 72, which was incorrectly given with the wrong author names as: Mendez-Ferrer, S., Lucas, D., Battista, M. & Frenette, P. S. Age-associated telomere attrition in adipocyte progenitors predisposes to metabolic disease. Nat. Metab. 2, 1482–1497 (2020). The correct form of Ref. 72 is: Gao, Z. et al. Age-associated telomere attrition in adipocyte progenitors predisposes to metabolic disease. Nat. Metab. 2, 1482–1497 (2020). This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.