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. 2012 Jan;50(1):164–165. doi: 10.1128/JCM.05692-11

Table 1.

VNTR sets used to genotype human M. bovis isolates

Locus or summary HGI for VNTR set MIRU-VNTR seta
HGI for locus
VNTR-8 VNTR-24
ETR-A X X 0.752
ETR-B X X 0.653
ETR-C X X 0.534
ETR-D X X 0.176
ETR-E X X 0.117
ETR-F X 0
MIRU-2 X 0
MIRU-10 X 0
MIRU-16 X 0.511
MIRU-20 X 0.117
MIRU-23 X 0.171
MIRU-24 X 0.402
MIRU-26 X 0.443
MIRU-27 X 0.232
MIRU-39 X 0
MIRU-40 X 0
VNTR-424 X 0.171
VNTR-1955 X 0.373
VNTR-2163b X X 0.674
VNTR-2347 X 0.117
VNTR-2401 X 0.117
VNTR-3171 X 0.061
VNTR-3232 X 0.861
VNTR-3690 X 0.061
VNTR-4052 X 0.688
VNTR-4156 X 0
HGI (VNTR only) 0.998 0.998
HGI (VNTR + spoligotyping) 1.0 1.0
a

MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit. The VNTR-8 set included eight loci and the VNTR-24 set included 24 loci. The HGI column shows the index for each locus, while the summary HGI values at the bottom of the table reflect the discriminatory power the MIRU-VNTR group collectively. VNTR-8 loci were identified from references 4, 13, and 15; VNTR-24 loci were identified from reference 6.