Copyright Ó 2008 by the Genetics Society of America
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.090340
Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERVK9) Structural Polymorphism With
Haplotypic HLA-A Allelic Associations
Jerzy K. Kulski,*,1 Atsuko Shigenari,† Takashi Shiina,† Masao Ota,‡ Kazuyoshi Hosomichi,†
Ian James§ and Hidetoshi Inoko†
*Centre for Forensic Science, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6009 Western Australia, Australia, †Division of Molecular
Life Science, Department of Genetic Information, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan,
‡
Department of Legal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan and §Centre
for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Murdoch University and