Significant variance in genetic diversity among populations of Schistosoma haematobium detected using microsatellite DNA loci from a genome-wide database

Table 3 Summary of genetic variation at 15 microsatellite loci in 6 populations of Schistosoma haematobium

Population	N	H _E	H _O	A	P	F _IS
Senegal	12	0.51 ±0.06	0.51 ±0.04	3.3	7	-0.01
Zanzibar	12	0.70 ±0.04	0.63 ±0.04	5.7	18	0.10
Malawi	10	0.60 ±0.07	0.65 ±0.04	3.9	8	-0.08
Mauritius	11	0.62 ±0.04	0.65 ±0.04	4.1	6	-0.06
Nigeria	12	0.58 ±0.06	0.58 ±0.04	4.4	7	0.01
South Africa	12	0.06 ±0.04	0.06 ±0.02	1.3	3	-0.02

N is the sample size (number of adult S. haematobium genotyped, DNA from 6 males and 6 females was sampled), H_E is the expected heterozygosity (calculated as Nei’s unbiased gene diversity (Nei, 1987)) ± the inter-locus standard deviation, H_O is the observed heterozygosity ± the interlocus standard deviation, A is the mean number of alleles, P is the number of private alleles, and F_IS is the Weir and Cockerham (1984) estimate for inbreeding.

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