LEMming: A linear error model to normalize parallel quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) data as an alternative to reference gene based methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Feuer, Ronny ^a   Vlaic, Sebastian ^b,c   Arlt, Janine ^b   Sawodny, Oliver ^a   Dahmen, Uta ^b   Zanger, Ulrich M ^d   Thomas, Maria ^d   Kaderali, Lars ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EEF1A1 GENE; FOXO1 GENE; GAPDH GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HMBS GENE; HPRT GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ERROR MODEL; MALE; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLR2A GENE; PPIA GENE; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE GENE BASED METHOD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RPL27 GENE; RPL32 GENE; RPLP0 GENE; RPS13 GENE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TBP GENE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; STANDARD; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84943339567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135852     Document Type: Article

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