Table 3. Within-body site Hamming score similarity compared scores generated from 10,000 random permutations of all body-sites.

Body site	Number of samples (minimum 4)	p-value
Anterior nares	67	0.50
Buccal mucosa	54	0.0008
Left retroauricular crease	23	0.85
Palatine tonsils	6	0.62
Posterior fornix	9	0.007
Right retroauricular crease	28	0.99
Stool	7	0.035
Supragingival plaque	37	0.0008
Tongue dorsum	82	0.78