NS4A protein as a marker of HCV history suggests that different HCV genotypes originally evolved from genotype 1b

Table 1 Number of amino acid sequences of NS4A protein from different countries used in this study

S/N	Country names	Number of sequences used from individual genotypes								Total
		G-1b	G-1a	G-1c	G-2	G-3	G-4	G-5	G-6
1	France	16	-	-	-	10	3	15	1	45
2	Germany	4	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	6
3	UK	-	12	-	1	15	2	1	2	33
4	Switzerland	6	11	-	-	4	-	-	-	21
5	Ireland	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
6	Belgium	-	-	-	-	1	-	8	-	9
7	Spain	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	2
8	Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2
9	Denmark	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1
10	Sweden	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
11	Russia	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
12	Japan	13	2	-	34	3	-	-	4	56
13	China	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5
14	Korea	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
15	Indonesia	-	-	1	5	1	2	-	-	9
16	Hong Kong	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	14
17	Thailand	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	6	7
18	Viet Nam	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	2
19	Pakistan	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	7
20	Singapore	-	6	-	-	1	-	-	-	7
21	India	-	-	2	-	1	-	-	-	3
22	Australia	1	7	-	-	5	-	-	-	13
23	USA	17	9	-	16	6	12	1	-	61
24	Canada	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
25	Algeria	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
26	Egypt	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	8
27	Cameroon	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
28	South Africa	-	-	-	-	-	6	8	-	14

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