Table 1 Summary of the Plasmodium falciparum var2csa assembled 7Kb fragment and its diversity by country using the field isolates with little evidence of mixed infections (n = 1,249).

From: Global genetic diversity of var2csa in Plasmodium falciparum with implications for malaria in pregnancy and vaccine development

Population

n

Number sites without missing data

Number of Haplotypes

Haplotype diversity (Hd)

Nucleotide diversity (π)

Average no. of nucleotide differences (pairwise comparison)

Burkina Faso

7

Cameroon

49

5317

44

0.995

0.0828

440

Gambia

31

6700

21

0.963

0.0795

533

Ghana

116

6037

105

0.998

0.0798

482

Guinea

33

6553

32

0.998

0.0866

567

Mali

15

6792

15

1

0.0873

593

Nigeria

3

DRC

77

6484

71

0.998

0.0815

530

Kenya

21

6784

19

0.990

0.0821

557

Malawi

95

5953

63

0.992

0.0819

488

Tanzania

30

6578

30

1

0.0892

587

Uganda

4

Madagascar

10

6899

10

1

0.0976

673

Bangladesh

11

6830

10

0.982

0.0896

612

Cambodia

360

4828

46

0.911

0.0696

336

Laos

40

6776

29

0.979

0.0786

533

Myanmar

72

6784

27

0.949

0.0836

567

Thailand

184

6651

47

0.968

0.0809

538

Vietnam

68

6712

30

0.893

0.0794

533

PNG

3

Brazil

3

Colombia

10

7045

6

0.889

0.0775

546

Peru

6

  1. bolded are African countries, italicised are South East Asian countries, DRC = Democratic Republic of Congo; PNG = Papua New Guinea.