Figure 3.

Equivalence test for the seven candidate housekeeping genes in the white matter and GBM sample groups. The differences of means (solid circles) and the matching symmetrical confidence intervals (whiskers) are shown for the logarithmized relative expression of each reference gene. Y-axis represents the fold changes in expression levels between tumor and normal tissues. The deviation area from -1 to 1 indicates fold changes ≤ 2. If the symmetrical confidence interval is included in the deviation area and contains zero, the gene is considered equivalently expressed.