Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Baka Pygmies and their Bantu neighbours in the north of Gabon

Table 2 Mean genetic diversity (He) of Plasmodium falciparum populations estimated from the different village types and the different ethnic groups (All Pygmies and All Bantus) for microsatellite markers and antigen-coding genes

	Isolated pygmyvillages (IPV)	Mixed villages (MV)		Forestry villages (FV)	All pygmies	All bantus
	Isolated pygmyvillages (IPV)	Pygmies	Bantus	Forestry villages (FV)	All pygmies	All bantus
Microsatellites
Ta60	0.835	0.817	0.828	0.789	0.826	0.808
Ara2	0.833	0.877	0.889	0.853	0.855	0.871
Taa87	0.819	0.847	0.916	0.832	0.833	0.874
Pfpk2	0.930	0.808	0.889	0.890	0.869	0.890
Polyα	0.944	0.899	0.932	0.891	0.922	0.912
Ta1	0.944	0.929	0.941	0.848	0.937	0.894
Taa81	0.814	0.834	0.792	0.835	0.824	0.814
Mean	0.874	0.859	0.884	0.848	0.866	0.866
Candidate genes
MSP2	0.711	0.836	0.603	0.741	0.773	0.672
MSP1	0.821	0.718	0.829	0.724	0.769	0.776
EBA-175	0.220	0.361	0.423	0.384	0.291	0.404
GLURP	0.359	0.741	0.612	0.644	0.550	0.628
Mean	0.528	0.664	0.617	0.623	0.596	0.620

Values within each category correspond to the average of genetic diversity computed within each population

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