TABLE 2.

Effect of anticoagulant on sequence agreement^a

Storage duration	Anticoagulant	Mean % agreement ± SD
		Base agreement	Codon	Mutation	WT
30 days	EDTA	99.8 ± 0.18	99.8 ± 0.28	0.98 ± 0.04	1.0 ± 0.00
	ACD	99.7 ± 0.27	99.8 ± 0.27	0.97 ± 0.04	1.0 ± 0.00
Pb		0.117	0.600	0.618	0.349
3 months	EDTA	99.7 ± 0.24	99.8 ± 0.41	0.98 ± 0.06	1.00 ± 0.00
	ACD	99.7 ± 0.19	99.8 ± 0.23	0.98 ± 0.03	1.00 ± 0.00
P		0.897	1.00	0.958	0.682

^aData shown are the mean agreement rates between the test sequence and gold standard sequence for each sample. Ten plasma samples were tested with each anticoagulant at each time point.

^bP values were calculated by ANOVA.