Table 3.
Distribution of amino acids at residue 70 and 91 of the core region
| Amino acid 70 | Amino acid 91 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genotype | Q | R | P | H | C | M | L | Total |
| 1a | 2% | 98% | - | - | 100% | - | - | 920 |
| 1b | 60% | 35% | - | 4% | 1% | 71% | 28% | 2022 |
| 2 | - | 100% | - | - | 39% | 4% | 58% | 83 |
| 3 | - | 93% | 6% | - | 99% | - | - | 204 |
| 4 | 5% | 95% | - | - | 100% | - | - | 19 |
| 5 | 86% | 14% | - | - | - | - | 100% | 14 |
| 6 | 60% | 13% | 13% | 15% | 100% | - | - | 55 |
A total of 3317 sequences found on 31st of March 2010 in the The Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Database Project (http://hcv.lanl.gov/) were analysed. Values less than 1% not shown.