Table 3.

Genes used in reference gene validation assay. Genes are ordered according to their pairwise correlation coefficient (r) in descending order

Rank	Gene	Pairwise correlation coefficient (r)	P-value
1	rps4	0.98500	0.00100
2	RpL32	0.98333	0.00100
3	EF1ɑ	0.98333	0.00105
4	ferritin	0.96467	0.00233
5	rpl4	0.95067	0.00447
6	RpL13A	0.94867	0.00523
7	v-ATPase	0.94133	0.00667
8	TUBB	0.93400	0.00939
9	ppiA	0.89333	0.01930
10	GAPDH	0.86467	0.03381
11	H3F3A	0.85867	0.04036