Effects of transmission reduction by insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) on parasite genetics population structure: I. The genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum parasites by microsatellite markers in western Kenya

Table 3 Comparisons of genetic diversity between the baseline and post-ITN parasite populations

Locus	Baseline population		Post-ITN population		p< 0.05 (H_e)*
	Allele Number (Allele Richness)	H_e ± SE	Allele Number (Allele Richness)	H_e ± SE
Poly-α	18 (17.96)	0.91 ± 0.0159	17 (16.92)	0.92 ± 0.0243	0.7301
Pfg377	4 (3.99)	0.29 ± 0.0654	3 (3.00)	0.57 ± 0.0984	0.0441
PfPK2	10 (9.99)	0.82 ± 0.0235	12 (11.92)	0.83 ± 0.0497	0.8555
ADL	15 (14.99)	0.91 ± 0.0108	14 (13.96)	0.89 ± 0.0191	0.3620
EBP	17 (16.96)	0.90 ± 0.0168	11 (10.91)	0.82 ± 0.0193	0.0017
P195	5 (5.00)	0.71 ± 0.0310	6 (5.99)	0.75 ± 0.0241	0.3084
TAA60	9 (8.98)	0.79 ± 0.0323	17 (16.87)	0.85 ± 0.0322	0.1879
TAA109	10 (9.99)	0.79 ± 0.0301	11(10.91)	0.77 ± 0.0372	0.6760
Overall		0.75 ± 0.0720		0.79 ± 0.0380	0.9850

Comparisons of genetic diversity between the baseline and post-ITN parasite populations based on number of alleles at each locus, allele richness (in parenthesis), and the unbiased heterozygosity plus the standard error (H_e ± SE) [17, 22]. (H_e)* denotes the p-values for H_e between baseline and post-ITN parasite populations.

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