Figure 2.

VARscore as a benchmarking tool for genotypic markers. All tandem repeats in the P. vivax genome were plotted according to their VARscore. The circles represent the VARscores of the markers used in two independent genotyping studies. The top row are the score for the markers used by Leclerc et al. (2004) who found very little variability in these markers, except for one marker, the one with the highest VARscore (far right point). The markers used by Imwong et al. (2006) (bottom row) have significantly higher VARscores, which agrees with the observed variability for these markers.