TABLE 3.

Allelic numbers and diversity of each VNTR locus in 69 M. tuberculosis strains from Hong Kong

VNTR locus	VNTR locus alias	VNTR convention	No. of alleles	Allelic diversity (h) of (n):
				Beijing strains (51)	Non- Beijing strains (18)	All strains (69)
ETR-A		VNTR 2165	6	0.201	0.471	0.296
ETR-B		VNTR 2461	6	0.000	0.575	0.201
ETR-C		VNTR 0577	5	0.165	0.052	0.151
ETR-Da	MIRU4	VNTR 0580	5	0.019	0.654	0.272
ETR-E	MIRU31	VNTR 3192	6	0.200	0.412	0.504
MIRU10		VNTR 0960	5	0.377	0.327	0.546
MIRU16		VNTR 1644	3	0.058	0.150	0.097
MIRU26		VNTR 2996	7	0.200	0.484	0.522
MIRU39		VNTR 4348	5	0.320	0.333	0.540
MIRU40		VNTR 0802	4	0.196	0.549	0.397
QUB11a		VNTR 2163a	10	0.384	0.755	0.568
QUB11b		VNTR 2163b	7	0.618	0.804	0.735
QUB26		VNTR 4052	9	0.299	0.817	0.510
QUB1895		VNTR 1895	4	0.229	0.471	0.315

^aThe difference between short and long alleles is not considered.