Population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum across a region of diverse endemicity in West Africa

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Allelic diversity (expected heterozygosity, H _e ) at 10 microsatellite loci in 8 local populations of Plasmodium falciparum in West Africa

	Populations sampled (n = numbers of individual isolates)
		Guinea		Guinea Bissau		Gambia		Senegal
Locus	N’Zerekore (n = 44)	Boke (n = 33)	Forecariah (n = 9)	Caio (n = 12)	Basse (n = 33)	Farafenni (n = 42)	Greater Banjul (n = 79)	Richard Toll (n = 16)
TA1	0.85	0.88	0.89	0.91	0.88	0.85	0.86	0.91
TAA87	0.85	0.79	0.81	0.82	0.86	0.85	0.85	0.74
ARA2	0.88	0.88	0.72	0.85	0.84	0.82	0.82	0.71
Pfg377	0.64	0.57	0.56	0.64	0.63	0.52	0.53	0.69
PfPK2	0.87	0.85	0.86	0.89	0.88	0.89	0.85	0.93
Polya	0.85	0.90	0.83	0.96	0.78	0.89	0.89	0.86
TAA60	0.80	0.83	0.89	0.68	0.82	0.79	0.82	0.75
TAA81	0.85	0.83	0.89	0.74	0.84	0.80	0.79	0.76
TAA109	0.83	0.86	0.86	0.85	0.88	0.86	0.87	0.82
TA42	0.34	0.54	0.39	0.68	0.16	0.22	0.25	0.00
Mean	0.78	0.79	0.77	0.80	0.76	0.75	0.75	0.72

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