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. 2018 Mar 6;13(3):e0191558. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191558

Table 3. Parameters based quantitative cycle (Cq) values for 10 candidate RGs.

  ACTB GAPDH RPL4 EEF1A1 RPS15 RPS23 RPS9 HMBS B2M UXT
N 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54
geo Mean [Cq] 20.68 20.30 20.81 19.94 22.69 19.11 19.74 25.44 19.69 23.93
ar Mean [Cq] 20.72 20.35 20.85 19.99 22.80 19.15 19.76 25.50 19.81 23.96
min [Cq] 17.82 16.32 18.28 17.21 19.15 16.41 18.07 20.47 15.29 21.99
max [Cq] 24.82 22.83 23.67 23.46 27.99 21.72 23.80 28.20 26.11 27.97
Std dev [±Cq] 1.13 1.11 0.97 1.22 1.89 0.97 0.75 1.34 1.63 0.95
CV [%Cq] 5.44 5.46 4.64 6.08 8.30 5.08 3.78 5.25 8.25 3.95
min [x-fold] -7.25 -15.71 -5.78 -6.63 -11.64 -6.48 -3.18 -31.34 -21.09 -3.83
max [x-fold] 17.68 5.79 7.23 11.49 39.42 6.12 16.62 6.79 86.01 16.49
Std dev
[± x-fold]
2.19 2.16 1.96 2.32 3.71 1.96 1.68 2.53 3.11 1.93

N = number of samples, geo Mean[Cq] = geometric mean of Cq; ar Mean[Cq] = arithmetic mean of Cq; min [Cq] and max [Cq] = extreme values of Cq; Std dev [±Cq] = standard deviation of the Cq; CV [%Cq] = coefficient of variation expressed as a percentage on the Cq values; min [x-fold] and max [x-fold] = extreme values of expression levels expressed as absolute x-fold over or under coefficient; std dev[±x-fold] = standard deviation of the absolute regulation coefficients.