Role of MIRU-VNTR and spoligotyping in assessing the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Henan Province, China

Table 4 The cumulative HGDI with successive addition of each MIRU-VNTR locus

	VNTR locus	No. of pattern	No. of cluster	No. of cluster isolates	No. of isolates in each cluster	cluster rate (%)	HGDI (cumulative)
1	Qub11b
2	mtub21	56	38	650	2–165	0.916	0.890
3	miru26	158	69	579	2–122	0.763	0.940
4	qub26	258	78	487	2–80	0.612	0.970
5	mtub-04	318	80	430	2–59	0.524	0.982
6	miru-10	356	84	396	2–49	0.467	0.988
7	ETRF	389	77	356	2–45	0.418	0.990
8	ETRE	420	72	320	2–42	0.371	0.992
9	miru-39	444	76	300	2–35	0.335	0.994
10	ETRA	466	72	274	2–28	0.302	0.996
11	miru-40	492	69	245	2–23	0.263	0.997
12	qub4156	507	63	224	2–21	0.241	0.997
13	mtub-38	512	62	218	2–21	0.234	0.997
14	mtub-39	524	55	199	2–21	0.216	0.997
15	mtub-30	528	53	193	2–20	0.210	0.997
16	ETRB	531	51	188	2–19	0.205	0.998
17	miru-27	536	50	182	2–18	0.198	0.998
18	miru-16	542	51	177	2–16	0.189	0.998
19	ETRD	548	46	166	2–15	0.180	0.998
20	ETRC	555	43	156	2–15	0.169	0.998
21	miru-23	562	42	146	2–15	0.156	0.998
22	mtub29	565	39	142	2–15	0.154	0.998
23	vntr49	565	39	142	2–15	0.154	0.998
24	miru-20	566	39	141	2–15	0.153	0.998
25	miru-2	566	39	141	2–15	0.153	0.998
26	miru-24	567	38	139	2–15	0.151	0.998

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