Table 3. Validation of microarray data with quantitative RT-PCR.

		Average fold change (Apex/Base)					Average fold change (P8/P0)2
		Microarray		qRT-PCR		Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient	Microarray	qRT-PCR
Group	Gene	P0(A/B)	P8(A/B)	P0(A/B)	P8(A/B)		(P8/P0)	(P8/P0)
A1	Stmn2	1.19	1.33	2.38	2.84	0.949	0.21	0.08
	Ccnb1	1.37	0.90	1.64	0.89	0.995	0.34	0.24
A2	kcnj10	0.69	0.90	0.42	0.88	0.999	3.71	21.88
	Kcnq1	0.82	0.85	0.56	0.52	0.960	2.13	3.17
B	Tecta	1.32	5.94	2.20	7.56	0.957	0.22	0.03
	Ptprq	0.78	2.11	0.27	2.87	0.837	1.17	1.81
	Chrna10	0.84	1.92	0.55	2.96	0.796	1.11	0.83
	Fzd4	1.15	1.54	1.74	1.09	0.900	1.39	1.69
	Nrcam	1.40	1.99	1.84	2.55	0.989	0.62	0.51
C	Tnmd	0.86	0.28	0.81	0.12	0.981	3.95	17.79
	Crym	0.98	0.46	1.48	0.24	0.982	0.25	0.12
D	Pdzrn4	1.75	1.10	2.80	1.15	0.845	0.84	0.70
	Cdh4	1.72	1.31	2.89	1.08	0.997	0.25	0.04
E	Fst	3.26	4.25	6.23	13.07	0.982	0.72	0.41
	Tectb	2.21	2.22	4.86	12.86	0.953	1.74	2.87
	Otog	1.50	2.38	1.48	3.84	0.982	0.71	0.59
	Ush1c	1.52	2.12	1.75	3.93	0.967	1.10	0.98
G	Atp6v0a4	0.24	0.76	0.06	0.54	0.996	2.92	10.59
	Slco1a4	0.42	0.75	0.41	0.36	0.992	8.81	13.70
I	Hoxa2	0.32	0.28	0.06	0.01	0.942	1.16	0.85
	A2m	0.37	0.40	0.21	0.16	0.997	2.87	3.95
	Ppp1r1b	0.50	0.66	0.26	0.35	0.969	2.17	4.95

²Fold changes between P0 and P8 (P8/P0) were calculated using the average values of the base, middle, and apex for each age.