Table 1. Amino acid sequence divergence (%) of p24 in VLP panel and LANL reference subtypes after pairwise sequence alignment.

	VLP panel		LANL reference subtypes
	n	p24	n	p24
A1	5	8.0±1.9	3	8.3±1.6
B	7	5.4±1.6	4	3.3±1.9
C	5	6.1±0.9	4	5.2±1.8
D	4	7.6±3.9	4	4.1±1.2
CRF12_BF	4	6.5±2.3	3	3.6±0.3
F2	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
G	4	6.7±1.8	4	4.6±2.8
CRF20_BG	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
H	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
CRF01_AE	4	4.7±1.8	3	4.1±1.3
CRF02_AG	5	8.3±1.9	3	4.3±0.9
group O	2	8.2	4	8.3±1.3
weighted average		6.7±1.2		5.1±1.8

N/A  =  not applicable; n =  number of sequences.