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 4 Estimates of pair-wise linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the baseline and post-ITN parasite populations

Pair-wise p-values of LD (p< 0.0018) in the baseline and post-ITN parasite populations
	Poly-α	Pfg377	PfPK2	ADL	EBP	P195	TAA60	TAA109
Poly-α		0.0050	0.0004	0.0048	0.0006	0.0092	0.1143	0.0310
Pfg377	0.0568		0.0546	0.0032	0.0007	0.0214	0.0157	0.0232
PfPK2	0.0037	0.3421		0.0471	0.0167	0.0018	0.0143	0.0658
ADL	0.0287	0.0004	0.0013		0.0867	0.0001	0.0026	0.0281
EBP	0.1107	0.0433	0.0043	0.0380		0.0255	0.0563	0.0256
P195	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001	0.0069	0.0001		0.0007	0.0223
TAA60	0.0002	0.4687	0.0001	0.0002	0.0015	0.0001		0.0102
TAA109	0.1151	0.0321	0.0050	0.0001	0.0095	0.0001	0.0001

Comparison of pair-wise p-values of LD for MS in baseline (below diagonal) and post-ITN (above diagonal). Bold numbers indicate significant LD in the baseline and post-ITN parasite populations after Bonferroni correction.

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