Fig. 2: Parasite relatedness and level of clonal transmission.
a, Heat map showing relatedness among Kayin samples. Pairwise parasite relatedness (r) was measured as the proportion of the genome with shared IBD between pairs of samples. Samples with r ≥ 0.9 are considered as IBD and share the same unique genome. Colour bars at the top of the heat map indicate information for each sample: MDA, if the sample came from an MP with (orange) or without (blue) MDA; year, the year of sampling; and kelch13, the genotype of kelch13—only alleles with frequency >2% in at least one sampling year were coloured. b, Level of clonal transmission. Genetic richness (RG) was defined as the number of unique parasite genotypes divided by the total number of parasite genotypes.
