diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Maintainer: Xuewei Cao <xc2270@cumc.columbia.edu>
 Description: A multi-task learning approach to variable selection regression with highly correlated predictors and sparse effects, 
   based on frequentist statistical inference. It provides statistical evidence to identify which subsets of predictors have non-zero 
   effects on which subsets of response variables, motivated and designed for colocalization analysis of multiple genetic association studies.
-  The ColocBoost model is described in Cao etc (2025) <doi:10.1101/2025.04.17.25326042>.
+  The ColocBoost model is described in Cao et. al. (2025) <doi:10.1101/2025.04.17.25326042>.
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyDataCompression: xz
 LazyData: true
diff --git a/inst/WORDLIST b/inst/WORDLIST
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@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ VCP
 VPA
 Xcorr
 YI
+al
 bioinformatics
 chrom
 cis
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ de
 decayrate
 doi
 eQTL
+et
 grey
 iteratively
 jk