Genetic evolution of structural region of hepatitis C virus in primary infection

Table 2 Characteristics of samples and results of SSCP/HDA*

Sample	Genotype	Clonotype distribution**	No. of clonotypes	Clonotype ratio
A1	3b	27, 3, 1, 1, 1	5	0.15
A2		15, 7, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1	8	0.24
A3		12, 8, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1	11	0.33
B1	3b	21, 7, 2, 1, 1	5	0.15
B2		19, 7, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1	7	0.21
B3		10, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1	17	0.52
C1	1b	17, 11, 2, 1, 1, 1	6	0.18
C2		8, 4, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1	10	0.30
C3		7, 4, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1	21	0.63

*Clonotype, a group of electrophoretically indistinguishable cloned cDNAs; clonotype ratio, the number of clonotypes divided by 33, the number of clones examined; **Each number represents a clonotype; the value indicates the number of cloned cDNAs assigned to that clonotype by the SSCP/HDA method.