Sequence diversity and natural selection at domain I of the apical membrane antigen 1 among Indian Plasmodium falciparum populations

Table 3 Inter-population genetic differentiation of the parasites

S. No.	Population-1	Population-2	Kxy^a	Dxy^b	Da^c	Fst^d	TM/SM^e
1	Assam	UP	10.087	0.02212	0.00207	0.09339	38/26
2	Assam	Orissa	11.273	0.02472	0.00176	0.07101	43/35
3	Assam	Goa	10.764	0.02361	0.00271	0.11488	38/20
4	Assam	AN	11.531	0.02529	0.00191	0.07551	45/28
5	UP	Orissa	9.977	0.02188	0.00293	0.13380	41/25
6	UP	Goa	8.313	0.01823	0.00135	0.07421	26/20
7	UP	AN	9.909	0.02173	0.00237	0.10894	37/24
8	Orissa	Goa	9.481	0.02079	0.00100	0.04819	41/19
9	Orissa	AN	10.983	0.02409	0.00181	0.07517	47/28
10	Goa	AN	9.739	0.02136	0.00116	0.05414	37/18

^a; Average number of nucleotide differences between populations
^b; The average number of nucleotide substitutions per site between populations,
^c; The number of net nucleotide substitutions per site between populations,
^d; Fixation index, a measure of genetic differentiation between populations (range from 0 to +1),
^e, TM, total number of mutations in both populations; SM, Numbers of mutations shared between populations

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