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. 2020 Sep 14;10:15057. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71895-x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Reference gene expression stability analysis in hypothalamus tissue at seven days following surgery. (A) Distribution of threshold cycle (Ct) values for each group (Fx = fracture; TBI = traumatic brain injury; TBI + Fx = combined injury) of all candidate reference genes tested. (B) Pairwise variation (Vn/n+1) analysis by GeNorm, to determine the optimal number of reference genes for normalisation. (C) Stability analysis by NormFinder (stability value: sv), GeNorm (M value) and BestKeeper (coefficient of correlation: r, standard deviation: SD), with a sum displayed in the final rank (green = most stable, red = least stable). (D) Overall expression stability confirmation of RefFinder, which combines NormFinder, GeNorm, BestKeeper and the comparative delta-Ct method.