TABLE 6.

Summary statistics of ALS and HYR tandem repeat length estimates for 43 C. albicans isolates

Gene	P value by cladea		Repeat no. for isolates in:
			Clade 1			Clade 2			Clade 3			Clade 4
	Single alleles	Mean allele	Range	Median	Mode	Range	Median	Mode	Range	Median	Mode	Range	Median	Mode
ALS1	0.062	0.95	9-19	14	14	2-19	12.5	2	11-16	13	13	11-22	14	13
ALS2	<0.001	0.22	10-48	39	39	14-30	27	27	25-30	30	30	11-48	34	39
ALS3	0.078	0.016	8-17	10	10	8-17	13	13	9-13	10.5	13	10-15	11	11
ALS4	0.01	0.90	8-39	25	25	14-34	19	14	22-34	29	29	13-39	29	29
ALS5	0.002	0.071	4-5	4	4	4-10	6	4	4-4	4	4	4-8	4	4
ALS6	<0.001	0.101	3-4	4	4	3-4	3	3	3-4	3	3	4-9	8	8
ALS7	<0.001	0.27	3-26	16	16	3-7	4	4	3-16	3	3	9-27	25	26
ALS9	0.007	0.44	10-20	10	10	11-23	13	13	11-15	11.5	11	7-18	11	11
HYR1	<0.001	0.22	21-25	23	22	21-23	23	23	21-23	22	23	16-25	25	25
HYR3
First repeat	<0.001	0.018	2-4	2	2	2-4	2	2	4-4	4	4	2-4	4	4
Second repeat	<0.001	0.031	21-22	22	22	22-22	22	22	20-21	20	20	21-21	21	21

^aOutcome of Kruskall-Wallis test for association between midrepeat numbers and clade, applied to all alleles from all isolates represented separately (single alleles column) or to the average allele size for each (diploid) isolate.