Table 2.

Allelic diversity of 26 different MIRU-VNTR loci among M.tuberculosis strains (n = 668)

locus	HGDI (all strains)	HGDI (Beijing family)	HGDI (non-Beijing family)	Size range observed	24-loci VNTR	15-loci VNTR	12-loci VNTR	10-loci VNTR
qub-11b	0.767	0.728	0.845	0–11	√	√		√
mtub-21	0.644	0.564	0.762	1–8	√	√		√
miru-26	0.616	0.541	0.817	1–12	√	√	√	√
qub26	0.608	0.566	0.762	1–11	√	√		√
mtub-04	0.516	0.460	0.690	1–6	√	√		√
miru-10	0.451	0.357	0.639	1–6	√	√	√	√
ETRF	0.434	0.358	0.661	0–7				√
ETRE	0.430	0.312	0.410	1–5	√	√	√	√
miru-39	0.394	0.281	0.464	1–8	√	√		√
ETRA	0.329	0.236	0.565	1–5	√	√		√
miru-40	0.326	0.243	0.589	0–5	√	√	√
qub4156	0.322	0.315	0.357	1–8	√	√
mtub-38	0.322	0.110	0.602	0–3
mtub-39	0.316	0.252	0.523	2–8	√		√
mtub-30	0.308	0.168	0.502	2–5	√	√
ETRB	0.179	0.097	0.468	1–5	√
miru-27	0.175	0.117	0.413	1–4	√		√
miru-16	0.172	0.120	0.396	1–5	√	√	√
ETRD	0.159	0.094	0.436	0–6	√	√	√
ETRC	0.109	0.097	0.172	2–5	√	√
miru-23	0.109	0.090	0.203	1–6	√		√
mtub29	0.096	0.077	0.187	2–6	√
vntr49	0.081	0.080	0.088	1–4	√
miru-20	0.030	0.028	0.036	1–2	√		√
miru-2	0.015	0.014	0.018	1–3	√		√
miru-24	0.015	0.007	0.054	1–3	√		√
all	0.998	0.998	0.999