Genetic composition and evolution of the prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages 2 and 4 in the Chinese and Zhejiang Province populations

Table 1 Summary of the most recent common ancestors of the four sub-lineages of L2 and L4 in China

Summary statistics	L2.2	L4.2	L4.4	L4.5
Mean (tMRCA)	10,763	8530	7800	7446
SE of the mean	39.5	62.7	39.4	43.0
Median (tMRCA)	10,740	8499	7770	7435
Geometric mean	10,711	8456	7747	7406
95% HDI	[8729–12,836]	[6378–10,804]	[6064–9572]	[5900–8901]
ESS	711.5	323.7	531.5	319.1

tMRCA the most recent common ancestor, SE of the mean standard error of the mean tMRCA, HDI highest posterior density interval, ESS effective sample size

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