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

Table 3 Estimates of genetic differentiation among parasite isolates imported from five regional sub-populations of sub-Saharan Africa (upper triangle is Jost’s D and bottom is G_ST)

Regions	East Africa	Central Africa	Central-West Africa	West Africa	Southern Africa
A. Extended panel (n = 26 loci)
East Africa	–	0.046	0.05	0.054*	0.075*
Central Africa	0.011	–	0.019	0.038	0.031
Central-West Africa	0.012	0.004	–	0.055	0.046
West Africa	0.017*	0.008	0.013	–	0.058
Southern Africa	0.017*	0.006	0.01	0.013	–
B. Original panel (n = 10 loci)
East Africa	–	0.105	0.104	0.129*	0.155*
Central Africa	0.012	–	0.038	0.037	0.035
Central-West Africa	0.012	0.004	–	0.08	0.051
West Africa	0.016*	0.004	0.009	–	0.071
Southern Africa	0.017*	0.003	0.005	0.007	–

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