Table 4. The Hunter-Gaston discriminatory index of the 12 VNTR loci in M. tuberculosis strains from Beijing in 2009.
| Order | VNTR# locus | VNTR alias | Number of alleles | Range of repeats | Allelic diversity (h*) for | ||
| Beijing family (n = 884) | non-Beijing family (n = 169) | All strains (n = 1053) | |||||
| 1 | 2163 | QUB-11b | 14 | 1–10 | 0.7262 | 0.7687 | 0.7637 |
| 2 | 1955 | Mtub21 | 9 | 1–9 | 0.6881 | 0.7339 | 0.7196 |
| 3 | 4348 | MIRU39 | 7 | 2–9 | 0.6848 | 0.5691 | 0.7172 |
| 4 | 1644 | MIRU16 | 6 | 0–8 | 0.6923 | 0.7333 | 0.6962 |
| 5 | 3192 | MIRU31 | 6 | 0–9 | 0.6544 | 0.7394 | 0.6518 |
| 6 | 0960 | MIRU10 | 6 | 0–7 | 0.4990 | 0.7312 | 0.5478 |
| 7 | 0802 | MIRU40 | 5 | 1–7 | 0.4007 | 0.5987 | 0.4725 |
| 8 | 2165 | ETR A | 5 | 0–6 | 0.3760 | 0.5749 | 0.4261 |
| 9 | 4156 | QUB-4156c | 8 | 0–7,11 | 0.2867 | 0.2938 | 0.2992 |
| 10 | 2401 | Mtub30 | 5 | 1–10 | 0.1727 | 0.5409 | 0.2459 |
| 11 | 3690 | Mtub39 | 6 | 1–7 | 0.2300 | 0.4136 | 0.2723 |
| 12 | 2531 | MIRU23 | 7 | 0–7 | 0.0443 | 0.1386 | 0.0561 |
*Hunter-Gaston discriminatory index.
#
Variable number tandem repeat.