Table 2.

Haplotype diversity of the entire sequence, and the octamer repeat (OctR), serine repeat (SerR), and non-repeat (NonR) 2562 base pair (bp) regions of the P. falciparum SERA5 gene.

Country	n	Entire Sequence		OctR Region		SerR Region		NonR 2562 bp Region
		No. of Haplotypes	Hd ± SD	No. of Haplotypes	Hd ± SD	No. of Haplotypes	Hd ± SD	No. of Haplotypes	Hd ± SD
Malawi and Mozambique	115	96 (88)	0.994 ± 0.003	34 (34)	0.809 ± 0.032	42 (39)	0.935 ± 0.011	26 (16)	0.545 ± 0.011
eBL case	63	54 (50)	0.993 ± 0.005	19 (19)	0.786 ± 0.047	28 (27)	0.928 ± 0.019	16 (9)	0.551 ± 0.075
Control	52	47 (45)	0.996 ± 0.002	21 (21)	0.839 ± 0.040	26 (23)	0.945 ± 0.016	14 (9)	0.544 ± 0.083
Tanzania	55	44 (42)	0.991 ± 0.006	21(21)	0.804 ± 0.054	30 (30)	0.968 ± 0.010	11 (9)	0.362 ± 0.084
Ghana	33	31 (29)	0.996 ± 0.009	16 (16)	0.873 ± 0.048	23 (23)	0.968 ± 0.018	8 (7)	0.472 ± 0.106

The numbers of amino acid sequence variations are shown in parenthesis. eBL: endemic Burkitt Lymphoma, Hd: Haplotype diversity, SD: standard deviation