Table 7.

Nucleotide diversity (π) within and between group I and II alleles of the P. falciparum Msp-1 genes

Block	Length, codons	Synonymous			Nonsynonymous
		Group I	Group II	Group I + group II	Group I	Group II	Group I + group II
1	55	0.019	0.021	0.017	0.017	0.010	0.013
2	55	0.106	0.185	0.150	0.449	0.497	0.553
3	202	0.038	0.006	0.042	0.018	0.000	0.023
4	31	0.031	0.000	0.020	0.307	0.000	0.215
5	35	0.000	0.000	0.070	0.000	0.000	0.026
6	227	0.000	0.000	0.282	0.004	0.001	0.300
7	73	0.000	0.000	0.361	0.003	0.000	0.072
8	95	0.000	0.000	0.338	0.000	0.003	0.711
9	107	0.000	0.023	0.409	0.005	0.043	0.126
10	126	0.008	0.000	0.448	0.011	0.000	0.394
11	35	0.000	0.000	0.128	0.000	0.000	0.068
12	79	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
13	84	0.000	0.042	0.040	0.005	0.007	0.052
14	60	0.000	0.018	0.212	0.002	0.005	0.371
15	89	0.000	0.000	0.216	0.001	0.003	0.089
16	217	0.002	0.032	0.277	0.005	0.027	0.185
17	99	0.002	0.019	0.007	0.010	0.027	0.016

Blocks are as defined by Tanabe et al. (6). Some block lengths vary between group I and II alleles; the value given is the average length of group I and II alleles.