Allelic diversity and observed (Ho) and expected (He) heterozygosity estimates of three MHC-linked STRs among age cohorts in all three study populations. Estimates for the Indian and Chinese super-SPF age cohorts are italicized and underlined, respectively.

Year of Birth	Loci	Conventional 2001-2008			SPF 2001-2008			super-SPF 2001-2008
		Ho	He	n	Ho	He	n	Ho			He			n
2001	D6S291	0.64	0.71	10	0.64	0.69	10	1.00			0.83			3
	D6S276	0.80	0.84	16	0.85	0.82	14	1.00			0.83			3
	D6S1691	0.77	0.83	18	0.80	0.85	16	0.50			0.83			3
2002	D6S291	0.72	0.73	12	0.73	0.74	8	0.88	0.86		0.77	0.79		6	6
	D6S276	0.82	0.85	15	0.85	0.84	11	0.88	0.86		0.84	0.90		8	8
	D6S1691	0.87	0.84	17	0.69	0.73	11	0.63	0.57		0.78	0.77		5	6
2003	D6S291	0.69	0.78	11	0.69	0.75	8	0.54	0.67	0	0.74	0.73	0.80	7	6	3
	D6S276	0.82	0.84	14	0.90	0.86	11	0.85	0.78	1.00	0.84	0.75	0.73	10	7	3
	D6S1691	0.81	0.84	21	0.72	0.75	10	0.69	0.56	0	0.77	0.56	0.93	9	5	5
2004	D6S291	0.67	0.77	13	0.72	0.76	9	0.63	0.50	0.71	0.81	0.73	0.84	9	5	9
	D6S276	0.79	0.85	14	0.81	0.82	10	0.79	0.60	0.93	0.90	0.73	0.90	12	5	9
	D6S1691	0.78	0.83	19	0.78	0.78	15	0.96	0.90	1.00	0.93	0.86	0.94	15	10	13
2005	D6S291	0.70	0.77	12	0.78	0.81	11	0.75	0.63	0.93	0.79	0.66	0.81	9	5	8
	D6S276	0.83	0.85	14	0.75	0.78	11	0.73	0.63	0.85	0.91	0.84	0.91	13	8	9
	D6S1691	0.82	0.83	19	0.80	0.82	17	0.78	0.67	0.93	0.91	0.85	0.90	19	11	13
2006	D6S291	0.73	0.78	13	0.71	0.77	10	0.74	0.73	0.74	0.79	0.74	0.81	11	8	10
	D6S276	0.81	0.85	14	0.76	0.81	14	0.82	0.75	0.96	0.87	0.77	0.86	13	8	9
	D6S1691	0.84	0.85	17	0.68	0.73	17	0.79	0.70	0.91	0.83	0.72	0.89	18	13	15
2007	D6S291	0.69	0.78	12	0.73	0.80	12	0.74	0.73	0.78	0.76	0.72	0.86	11	9	9
	D6S276	0.81	0.84	14	0.80	0.83	14	0.82	0.76	0.88	0.88	0.83	0.88	15	10	13
	D6S1691	0.82	0.84	20	0.78	0.79	17	0.83	0.79	0.89	0.85	0.77	0.89	18	15	12
2008	D6S291	0.70	0.78	12	0.69	0.79	10	0.72	0.69	0.91	0.74	0.70	0.82	11	9	6
	D6S276	0.82	0.83	14	0.84	0.82	12	0.88	0.84	0.89	0.88	0.83	0.89	13	9	9
	D6S1691	0.81	0.83	20	0.78	0.79	17	0.81	0.75	0.82	0.86	0.75	0.87	17	10	10
Overall		0.77	0.81	21	0.76	0.79	17	0.78	0.71	0.79	0.83	0.76	0.86	18	15	15