Genetic polymorphisms in the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium malariae show a geographical bias

Malaria Journal

Table 3 Estimate of DNA sequence polymorphisms within nonrepeat regions of pmcsp gene in different populations

Population	No. of samples	Haplotype diversity	Pi	dN/dS	Fu and Li's D	Fu and Li's F	Tajima's D
Thailand	43	0.66	0.005	1.563	1.124	0.509	− 0.961
Myanmar	40	0.977	0.017	0.88	− 1.335	− 1.666	− 0.962
Kenya	38	0.925	0.007	0.442	− 3.023*	−3.138*	− 1.922*
Asia	91	0.894	0.013	1.017	− 1.904	− 2.308*	− 1.951*
Africa	52	0.906	0.006	0.411	− 4.192**	− 4.150**	− 2.235***

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