Mutations in pre-core and basic core promoter regions of hepatitis B virus in chronic hepatitis B patients

Table 6 Consistency of two methods for detection of mutations in the basic core promoter and pre-C regions of hepatitis B virus

		BIOTGENE for BCP region		Total	Kappa	P value			BIOTGENE for pre-C region		Total	Kappa	P value
DAAN for BCP region		WT	Mutant				DAAN for		WT	Mutant
	WT	23	2	25			pre-C region	WT	29	5	34
	Mutant	1	50	51	0.91	0.00		Mutant	11	31	42	0.58	0.00
	Total	24	52	76				Total	40	36	76

BCP: Basic core promoter; WT: Wild-type.