Table 4 Evidence for genetic differentiation among geographic populations of C. neoformans in China.

	BJ (112)	JX (86)	GD (31)	SH (22)	SC (19)	HN (15)	HK (14)	HEB (13)	ZJ (11)	JS (8)	SD (8)	HUB (7)	LN (7)	AH (6)	SX (5)
Beijing (BJ)		0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.002
Jiangxi (JX)	0.426		0.379	0.225	0.012	0.334	0.118	0.176	0.259	0.336	0.355	0.344	0.331	0.324	0.295
Guangdong (GD)	0.382	0.000		0.422	0.059	0.359	0.101	0.429	0.310	0.243	0.313	0.266	0.251	0.212	0.182
Shanghai (SH)	0.289	0.009	0.000		0.273	0.390	0.383	0.304	0.327	0.354	0.310	0.346	0.363	0.313	0.263
Sichuan (SC)	0.195	0.093	0.081	0.000		0.360	0.347	0.196	0.270	0.292	0.127	0.369	0.139	0.450	0.516
Henan (HN)	0.337	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.021		0.222	0.525	0.161	0.332	0.363	0.294	0.305	0.270	0.249
Hongkong (HK)	0.323	0.031	0.041	0.005	0.026	0.000		0.503	0.489	0.507	0.284	0.377	0.407	0.139	0.063
Hebei (HEB)	0.369	0.019	0.002	0.008	0.069	0.000	0.007		0.466	0.397	0.399	0.321	0.333	0.312	0.282
Zhejiang (ZJ)	0.379	0.000	0.000	0.007	0.085	0.000	0.015	0.000		0.421	0.711	0.487	0.636	0.573	0.313
Jiangsu (JS)	0.380	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.080	0.000	0.009	0.000	0.000		1.000	0.485	0.478	0.440	0.001
Shandong (SD)	0.381	0.000	0.000	0.011	0.083	0.000	0.019	0.000	0.006	0.000		0.720	0.738	0.692	0.406
Hubei (HUB)	0.356	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.043	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.020	0.001		1.000	0.740	0.422
Liaoning (LN)	0.377	0.000	0.000	0.006	0.074	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.013	0.020	0.001	0.000		0.728	0.423
Anhui (AH)	0.313	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.026	0.051	0.007	0.002	0.002		0.473
Shanxi (SX)	0.358	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.027	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

The pairwise population F_ST values are shown below diagonal. The probability of the observed F_ST values being statistically significant is shown above diagonal, with a P value of <0.05 rejecting the null hypothesis that the two compared populations are genetically similar to each other.
The abbreviations on the top row are the same as those in the left column. Numbers in parenthesis of the top row are the numbers of isolates from each of the geographic populations.

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