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What Genes are Hot, What Genes are Not

  
  
  
  
  

 A "Referral from the Doctor" Blog Article-

 Top 10 Reference Genes for probe-based Real-time PCR in 2009:

• Acidic Ribosomal Phosphoprotein P0 (RPLP0 or 36B4)
• ATP-synthase subunit 5B (A5B)
• Tumor Protein Translationally controlled 1 (TPT1)
• Signal Recognition Particle 14kDa (SRP14)
• TATA-Binding Protein (TBP)
• Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 1A1 (EEF1A1)
• Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyl-Transferase 1 (HPRT1)
• poly-Ubiquitin (Ubi)
• Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PD)
• Beta-actin (ACTB)

See next week's blog for follow up information!

Written by: Christina Ferrell, Ph.D., Technical Applications Specialist

References:
A. Pilbrow, L. Ellmers, M. Black, C. Moravec, W. Sweet, R. Troughton, A.M. Richards, C. Frampton, V. Cameron. Genomic selection of reference genes for real-time PCR in human myocardium. BMC Medical Genomics (2008) 1(1):64

Li-Yun Fu, Hu-Liang Jia, Qiong-Zhu Dong, Jin-Cai Wu, Yue Zhao, Hai-Jun Zhou, Ning Ren, Qin-Hai Ye, Lu-Xiu Qin. Suitable reference genes for real-time PCR in human HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma with different clinical prognoses. BMC Cancer (2009) 9:49

E.D. Silveira, M. Alves-Ferreira, L.A. Guimaraes, F. R. da Silva, V. T. de Campos Carneiro. Selection of reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR expression studies in apomictic and sexual grass Brachiaria brizantha. BMC Plant Biology (2009) 9:84

G. Silberberg, K. Baruch, R. Navon. Detection of stable reference genes for real-time PCR analysis in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Analytical Biochemistry (2009) 391(2):91-97

B. Etschmann, B. Wilcken, K. Stoevesand, A. von der Schulenburg, A. Sterner-Kock. Selection of reference genes for qualitative real-time PCR analysis in canine mammary tumors using geNorm algorithm. Vet Pathol. (2006) 43:934-942


Comments

hi 
 
that was very interesting for me. 
 
please advise me some more 
 
reference genes for qRT-PCR 
 
truely
Posted @ Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:56 PM by babak mamnoon
Dear Babak, 
 
The choice of reference genes are very tissue and assay specific. Without knowing the details of your assay design, I cannot make a recommendation. I encourage you to explore the literature specific to your type of assay and tissue and see what others have chosen. To identify reference genes, I usually mine information from microarray data for genes that are highly expressed and which have a relatively constant transcript number across the sample set. Many reference genes will have variable expression when using the same tissue with different cancer or treatment types. You will need to collect empirical data and ensure that the gene you chose does not fluctuate in response to treatment or disease.  
 
Good luck and happy experimenting, 
Christina Ferrell, Ph.D.
Posted @ Monday, April 25, 2011 11:35 AM by Biosearch Technologies
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