. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Biol Rhythms. 2019 Oct 31;35(1):84–97. doi: 10.1177/0748730419883043

Table 2:

Experimental estimation of Pearson correlation between candidate reference genes calculated from respective Cq values from the complete set of samples

		18S	YWHAZ	RPL13a	RPII	GAPDH	HPRT1
18S	$\hat{ρ}$	--	0.4376	0.3531	0.5646	0.5627	0.6119
18S	p-value	--	1.0 E-05	4.8 E-04	3.1 E-09	3.6 E-09	5.69E-11
YWHAZ	$\hat{ρ}$	0.4376	--	0.5630	0.7670	0.7148	0.2663
YWHAZ	p-value	1.0 E-05	--	3.5 E-09	2.0 E-19	5.9 E-16	0.00947
RPL13α	$\hat{ρ}$	0.3531	0.5630	--	0.8328	0.6134	0.275
RPL13α	p-value	4.8 E-04	3.5 E-09	--	2.3 E-25	4.9 E-11	0.00726
RPII	$\hat{ρ}$	0.5646	0.7670	0.8328	--	0.8605	0.1917
RPII	p-value	3.1 E-09	2.0 E-19	2.3 E-25	--	1.1 E-28	0.0642
GAPDH	$\hat{ρ}$	0.5627	0.7148	0.6134	0.8605	--	0.1659
GAPDH	p-value	3.6 E-09	5.9 E-16	4.9 E-11	1.1 E-28	--	0.1101
HPRT1	$\hat{ρ}$	0.6119	0.2663	0.2752	0.1917	0.1659	--
HPRT1	p-value	5.7 E-11	0.0095	0.0073	0.0642	0.1101	--

The p-values represented the probability that the correlation coefficient resulted from random chance.