Correction to: Genes and Immunity (2009) 10, 457–469; doi:10.1038/gene.2009.27

Since the publication of this paper, the authors have noticed that the functional region for SNPs rs4308977 and rs17616 in Table 1 was incorrect; ‘Exon 10a’ should read ‘Exon 11’. In addition, there is a misspelled word in Figure 3b; ‘3’ Acceotor’ should read ‘3’ Acceptor’.