Table 1.

Results of analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) for each patient

Patient	Number of pulps analyzed	Between-pulp variation Va	Total variation Vb	FST (⩵Va/Vb)
B	3	1.453	2.446	0.594
L	4	0.836	2.266	0.369
M	2	−0.041	2.380	−0.017ns
N	2	0.055	0.706	0.078
P	5	0.463	2.154	0.215
S	4	0.146	1.629	0.090

ns, not significant at the 5% level.