Careful Selection of Reference Genes Is Required for Reliable Performance of RT-qPCR in Human Normal and Cancer Cell Lines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Jacob, Francis ^a,b   Guertler, Rea ^b   Naim, Stephanie ^b   Nixdorf, Sheri ^b   Fedier, André ^a   Hacker, Neville F ^c   Heinzelmann Schwarz, Viola ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE GENE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; HPRT1 GENE; HSPCB GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PPIA GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA 18S GENE; RPII GENE; RPS13 GENE; SDHA GENE; YWHAZ GENE;

ALGORITHMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84875048643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059180     Document Type: Article

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