TABLE 4.

VNTR loci diversity in Beijing genotype strains from different locations

VNTR locus or combination (no. of loci)	VNTR alias	Locus diversitya in area of isolation (reference)
		St. Petersburg, Russia (this study, set 1)	Samara, Russia (31)	West Siberia, Russia (35)	Beijing, China (12)	Hong Kong, China (13)	Hong Kong, China (16)	Kobe, Japan (11)
Discriminatory (15)
2163b	QUB-11b	0.205		0.210	0.651	0.669	0.618	0.772
1955	Mtub21	0.330	0.105	0.110	0.556			0.393
4052	QUB-26	0.636		0.780	0.518	0.314	0.299	0.741
4156	QUB-4156	0.082			0.395	0.167		0.611
2996	MIRU 26	0.520	0.445		0.353		0.200	0.383
424	Mtub04	0	0.061		0.306			0.459
2165	ETR-A	0.158	0.046	0	0.232	0.188	0.201	0.147
802	MIRU40	0.122	0.031	0.390	0.194		0.196	0.327
3690	Mtub39	0	0.016	0	0.171			0.186
3192	MIRU31; ETR-E	0.160	0.176	0	0.169	0.156	0.200	0.322
960	MIRU10	0.082	0.046		0.144		0.377	0.419
580	MIRU4; ETR-D	0	0.046		0.120	0.072	0.019	0.086
577	ETRC	0.042	0.016	0	0.094	0.057	0.165	0.022
1644	MIRU16	0.082	0.016		0.068		0.058	0.310
2401	Mtub30	0.042			0.068			0.403
Supplementary (9)
2347	Mtub29	0.087		0.180	0.119			0.043
4348	MIRU39	0	0.016		0.119		0.320	0.221
3007	MIRU27; QUB-5	0	0		0.014			0.115
2461	ETR-B	0	0		0.014	0.064	0	0.033
3171	Mtub34	0			0.014			0.065
2531	MIRU23	0	0.016	0	0.014			0.176
2059	MIRU20	0.120	0		0.014			0.022
154	MIRU2	0	0.031		0			0
2687	MIRU24	0	0		0			0
HV
3232	QUB-3232	0.729	0.621			0.804		0.880
3820	VNTR-3820	0.542						0.800
4120	VNTR-4120	0.370						0.902

^aThe locus diversity was calculated as the HGI (13, 31, 35, this study), as allelic diversity (12, 16), or as polymorphic information content (11).