Table 6. Observed average distance between MLVA profiles obtained from each cat.

Cat number	Average distance1 between MLVA profiles	p2
127	1.0	<0.0001
134	1.0	<0.0001
138	1.0	<0.0001
142	1.0	<0.0001
204	1.0	<0.0001
232	1.0	<0.0001
237	4.0	0.42
247	1.3	0.001
267	1.3	0.001
273	4.0	0.43
33	2.3	0.04
37	1.0	<0.0001
40	1.0	<0.0001
51	1.0	<0.0001
71	3.7	0.41
79	1.0	<0.0001
81	1.0	<0.0001
88	3.6	0.45
9	1.3	<0.0001
91	1.3	0.0001
92	2.7	0.004

¹Mean number of loci for which the repeat number is different, averaged over all profile pairs.

²Approximate p-value determined using a bootstrap method.

Approximate p-value is obtained testing the null hypothesis that two pairs of MVLA profiles obtained from the same cat are as similar as two pairs of MVLA profiles obtained from different cats.