NORMA-Gene: A simple and robust method for qPCR normalization based on target gene data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Heckmann, Lars Henrik ^a   Sørensen, Peter B ^a   Krogh, Paul H ^a   Sørensen, Jesper G ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EXPERIMENTAL BIAS; GENE ALGORITHMS; NORMALIZATION ALGORITHMS; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; REFERENCE GENE NORMALIZATIONS; REFERENCE GENES; TARGET GENE EXPRESSION; VALIDATION OF REFERENCE GENES;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EID: 84874759526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-252     Document Type: Article

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