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Statistical analysis of real-time PCR data

Joshua S Yuan1,2 email, Ann Reed3 email, Feng Chen1 email and C Neal Stewart Jr1 email

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture Genomics Hub, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

Statistical Consulting Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

author email corresponding author email

BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:85doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-85

Published: 22 February 2006

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Additional file 1:

The SAS program implements the data quality control processes.

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Additional file 2:

The data provides the input data for Program1_QC.sas and Program3_ANCOVA.sas. The data has grouped the Ct values according to the different combination of sample and gene.

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Additional file 3:

The abbreviated SAS output for all the analyses.

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Additional file 4:

The SAS program implements the multiple regression model and derives ΔΔCt.

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Additional file 5:

The input data for Program2_MR.sas, which has contains sample, gene, concentration and Ct number.

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Additional file 6:

The SAS program implements the ANCOVA model and derives ΔΔCt.

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Additional file 7:

The SAS program performs both student t test and Wilcoxon two group tests on the ΔCt to derive ΔΔCt.

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Additional file 8:

The SAS program is a macro that derives confidence interval for Wilcoxon two group tests.

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Additional file 9:

The input data for Program4_TW.sas. The data contains only sample name and ΔCt.

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Additional file 10:

The SAS program performs test for equal slope, grouped slope and adjusted ΔΔCt.

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Additional file 11:

The input data for Program5_LowQualityData.sas.

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