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Table 7 Summarised results of the universal RNA standard spiked during amplification (part 2), as generated by the NormFinder analyses

From: The presence of residual gold nanoparticles in samples interferes with the RT-qPCR assay used for gene expression profiling

Reference gene

NormFinder technical repeat 1

NormFinder technical repeat 2

NormFinder technical repeat 3

NormFinder average

Manual ranking using the NormFinder average of the reference gene

NormFinder global summary of the best genea

18S

(0.040)

(0.007)

(0.011)

0.019

1 18S (most stable)

2 HPRT1

3 GUSB

4 YWHAZ

5 GAPDH

6 HSP90

7 ACTB

8 TBP

9 SDH

10 PPI (least stable)

GUSB (0.093)

HPRT1 and YWHAZ (0.069)

ACTB

(0.467)

(0.151)

(0)

0.206

GAPDH

(0.074)

(0.007)

(0.185)

0.088

GUSB

(0.014)

(0.021)

(0.070)

0.035

HPRT1

(0.078)

(0.017)

(0)

0.031

HSP90

(0.035)

(0.017)

(0.368)

0.14

PPI

(0.999)

(0.893)

(0.519)

0.803

SDH

(0.286)

(0.502)

(0.158)

0.315

TBP

(0.069)

(0.214)

(0.415)

0.232

YWHAZ

(0.074)

(0.024)

(0.114)

0.070

  1. aThe best gene has the lowest stability value