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Relative quantification of mRNA: comparison of methods currently used for real-time PCR data analysis

Štefan Čikoš*, Alexandra Bukovská and Juraj Koppel

BMC Molecular Biology 2007, 8:113 doi:10.1186/1471-2199-8-113

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Gill transcriptome response to changes in environmental calcium in the green spotted puffer fish

Patrícia IS Pinto, Hideo Matsumura, Michael AS Thorne, Deborah M Power, Ryohei Terauchi, Richard Reinhardt, Adelino VM Canário BMC Genomics 2010, 11:476 (17 August 2010)

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Validation of reference genes for quantitative expression analysis by real-time RT-PCR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Marie-Ange Teste, Manon Duquenne, Jean M François, Jean-Luc Parrou BMC Molecular Biology 2009, 10:99 (30 October 2009)

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Short hairpin RNA-mediated knockdown of protein expression in Entamoeba histolytica

Alicia S Linford, Heriberto Moreno, Katelyn R Good, Hanbang Zhang, Upinder Singh, William A Petri BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:38 (17 February 2009)

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Critical evaluation of methods used to determine amplification efficiency refutes the exponential character of real-time PCR

Robert G Rutledge, Don Stewart BMC Molecular Biology 2008, 9:96 (30 October 2008)

Measurement of template quantity in real-time qPCR using standard curves is prone to error, and the novel linear regression of efficiency method that calculates the amplification efficiency at the onset of each reaction is more accurate.

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A kinetic-based sigmoidal model for the polymerase chain reaction and its application to high-capacity absolute quantitative real-time PCR

Robert G Rutledge, Don Stewart BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:47 (8 May 2008)

The LRE (linear regression of efficiency) algorithm for estimating PCR efficiency is a kinetic-based sigmoidal approach that, when coupled with optical calibration, provides data comparison without using standard curves, allowing high-capacity absolute PCR quantification.