TABLE 3.
Allelic diversity of the 17 VNTR loci in the 72 M. tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains of study set 2a
| VNTR locus | VNTR alias | No. of alleles | No. of repeats (range) | Allelic diversity (HGI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2163b | QUB-11b | 2 | 5-6 | 0.106 |
| 1955 | Mtub21 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 4052 | QUB-26 | 3 | 6-8 | 0.656 |
| 4156 | QUB-4156 | 2 | 1-2 | 0.028 |
| 2996 | MIRU 26 | 3 | 4-7 | 0.534 |
| 2165 | ETR A | 2 | 3-4 | 0.028 |
| 802 | MIRU 40 | 2 | 2-3 | 0.028 |
| 3192 | MIRU 31; ETR E | 2 | 5-6 | 0.028 |
| 960 | MIRU 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 577 | ETR C | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1644 | MIRU 16 | 3 | 1-4 | 0.082 |
| 2401 | Mtub30 | 2 | 2-4 | 0.055 |
| 2347 | Mtub29 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2059 | MIRU 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 3232 | QUB-3232 | 5 | 12-18 | 0.655 |
| 3820 | VNTR-3820 | 6 | 12-19 | 0.716 |
| 4120 | VNTR-4120 | 3 | 6-10 | 0.478 |
a
The 17 loci were found to be polymorphic in 48 strains of study set 1 (Table 2). Study set 2 was composed of two IS6110-RFLP clusters, A0 (n = 38) and B0 (n = 34).