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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Genet Genomics. 2009 Jun 11;282(3):233–244. doi: 10.1007/s00438-009-0461-7

Table 1.

Robust performance of standard control genes using CAB as sole reference to set a manual threshold at 26 Ct and a master equation derived from 38 replicated plate reactions on Applied Biosystems 7,500 real time PCR System

Control gene Reference Ct Mean Ct Stdev Estimated mRNA (pg) Input mRNA (pg) Amplification efficiency
MSG 29.349 0.189 0.105 0.1 0.95
CAB 26.0 25.942 0.18 0.939 1 0.94
RBS1 22.267 0.111 9.97 10 1.00
ACTB 15.072 0.027 1017.448 1000 0.98