Table 4.

Ranking of ten candidate reference genes in normal control tissue based on average expression stability value as calculated by Bestkeeper-1 and NormFinder.

Rank	Bestkeeper-1		NormFinder
	Gene name	Stability value	Gene name	Stability value
1	EIF2B1	0.45	EIF2B1	0.306
2	RPL37A	0.56	RPL37A	0.318
3	PPIA	0.65	MRPL19	0.329
4	MRPL19	0.69	PPIA	0.404
5	ACTB	0.75	GAPDH	0.415
6	POP4	0.77	POP4	0.419
7	IPO8	0.82	CASC3	0.462
8	GAPDH	0.82	ACTB	0.542
9	CASC3	0.85	PGK1	0.590
10	PGK1	1.04	IPO8	0.621