Table 2

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms identified by Not-N analysis for the major subtypes of hepatitis C virus.

HCV subtypea
No. genotypes
SNP 1
SNP 2





Positionb
Discrimination (%)
Position
Discrimination (%)

1a
117
126* (C or T)
100
-
-
1b
382
103 (C)
72.1
194* (G)/238* (C) 100%
100
2a
38
258 (A or G) 99.7%
99.7
182* (T)
100
2b
53
314 (A)
99.7
127 (A)
100
2c
5
50 (T)
99.7
39* (G)
100
3a
49
295 (G)
100
-
-
3b
6
307 (T)
99.8
126* (G)
100
4a
26
182* (A)
97.8
325* (A)
100
4d
17
154 (A)
100
-
-
4f
21
325* (C)
99.5
194* (T)/238* (A) 100%
100
4t
4
338/339 (C)
100
-
-
5a
18
100 (C)
100
-
-
6a
34
39* (C or T)
100
-
-

aSubtypes containing less than four confirmed sequences were not included in the analysis. Sequences were downloaded from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequence database [10].

bThe single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) position refers to a 340 bp fragment of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase NS5B spanning nucleotides 8276 to 8615 (GenBank accession AF009606 [48]). NS5B is used to construct phylogenetic trees for HCV, which form the basis of the genotype and subtype nomenclature [40].

*SNP discriminates multiple subtypes.

Price et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:278   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-278