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Published in final edited form as: Cytokine. 2016 Dec 9;90:185–192. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2016.09.018

TABLE 3.

Reliability characteristics of the Luminex platform using the external control samples

Biomarkers	Median, pg/mL	25%	75%	Plates with CVs ≥15% (%)^b	Median intra-assay CV (%)	Inter- assay CV (%)
BAFF	2,425	2,192	2,717	5.2	4.5	14.7
CXCL13	570	447	662	7.2	3.9	26.1
sCD14^a	1,480	1,387	1,574	9.2	5.2	10.5
sCD27	9,304	8,514	10,290	3.9	4.7	13.9
sgp130^a	253	239	266	4.6	4.1	8.8
sIL-2Rα	1,402	1,262	1,540	4.6	4.5	29.0
sTNF-R2	2,624	2,479	2,821	6.5	4.0	9.7

Percent of plates with intra-assay CVs ≥ 15%.