Confirmation of the absence of local transmission and geographic assignment of imported falciparum malaria cases to China using microsatellite panel

Table 2 Genetic diversity and allelic richness of 336 imported monoclonal Plasmodium falciparum isolates from five regional sub-populations of Africa

Population	No. samples	Extended panel (n = 26 loci)		Original panel (n = 10 loci)
Population	No. samples	R_S ± SE^a	H_E ± SE^b	R_S ± SE	H_E ± SE
East Africa	12	4.2 ± 0.30	0.68 ± 0.038	3.12 ± 0.26	0.82 ± 0.033
Central Africa	156	4.1 ± 0.30	0.72 ± 0.035	3.31 ± 0.28	0.84 ± 0.022
Central West Africa	48	3.8 ± 0.28	0.70 ± 0.038	2.77 ± 0.22	0.83 ± 0.028
West Africa	29	4.0 ± 0.28	0.71 ± 0.034	3.03 ± 0.25	0.83 ± 0.025
Southern Africa	91	3.9 ± 0.29	0.72 ± 0.033	2.91 ± 0.27	0.85 ± 0.022
Total	336	4.0 ± 0.13	0.71 ± 0.016	3.02 ± 0.11	0.83 ± 0.011

^aR_S–Allelic richness based on the minimum sample size of 12 individuals (East Africa) and ^bH_E is the mean expected heterozygosity

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