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. 2006 Sep;12(9):1406–1413. doi: 10.3201/eid1209.041263

Table 5. Frequency of an expanded set of 25 VNTR-MIRU alleles and allelic diversity for each locus for Beijing strains*†.

Locus No. repeats
HGDI No. AV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 20 25 26
424 0 1 3 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.061 3
531 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 128 1 0.016 2
1955 1 4 1 122 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.105 4
1982 0 1 0 1 3 34 2 86 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.489 7
2074 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2163a 0 1 0 0 2 5 0 1 117 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.177 7
3232 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 62 1 50 5 3 1 2 0 0 0.621 10
3239 0 2 126 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.046 3
3336 0 1 0 0 1 0 124 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.076 5
3690 1 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.016 2

*N = 129; VNTR, variable-number tandem repeats; MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units; HGDI, Hunter-Gaston discriminatory index; AV, allelic variants.
†No loci had allelic variants with 11, 18, 19, and 21–24 repeats.