Ancient retroviral insertions among human populations.

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Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) represent vestiges of ancient infections that resulted in stable integration of the viral genome. These insertional elements of viral origin are in fact molecular fossils and, as such, a source of evolutionary information. A family of HERV insertions designated HERV-K includes members that are still polymorphic for the original insertional event. The goal of this report is to...

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