Table 2. Mean intra-compartment genetic diversity of the six compartments sequenced, namely Infant blood, Mothers plasma, BM-RNA and BM-DNA, as calculated in MEGA Version 6.06.

CASE No.	Mean intra-compartment genetic distance
	INFANT-DBS (n = 11)	MOTHER’S PLA-RNA (n = 11)	LBM-DNA (n = 10)	LBM-RNA (n = 10)	RBM-DNA (n = 10)	RBM-RNA (n = 10)
1	0.035	0.061	0.022	0.039	0.000	0.081
3	0.035	0.019	0.018	0.022	0.020	0.050
4	0.013	0.035	0.032	0.002	0.039	0.001
10	0.002	0.050	0.020	0.021	0.026	0.014
11	0.005	0.005	ND	0.004	ND	0.003
12	0.004	0.012	0.026	0.001	0.016	ND
14	0.001	0.024	0.026	0.011	0.012	0.014
15	0.003	0.016	0.044	0.046	0.028	0.051
18	0.001	0.014	0.001	ND	0.001	0.014
19	0.001	0.000	0.003	0.018	0.009	0.011
21	0.040	0.055	0.043	0.036	0.016	0.027
Mean diversity ± SD (Range)	0.013±0.016 (0.001–0.040)	0.026±0.021 (0.000–0.061)	0.024±0.014 (0.010–0.044)	0.020±0.016 (0.001–0.046)	0.017±0.021 (0.000–0.039)	0.027±0.026 (0.001–0.081)

Key: ND = not determined as clones from these compartments could not be generated, LBM-DNA = left breast milk DNA, LBM-RNA = left breast milk RNA, RBM-DNA = right breast milk DNA, RBM-RNA = right breast milk RNA, 1 = T-test p = 0.01, 2 = T-test p = 0.04.