Computation of the gene expression stability value M for real-time
quantitativ RT-PCR data. For more details we refer to
Vandesompele et al. (2002).
Usage
geneStabM(relData, na.rm = FALSE)
Arguments
relData
matrix or data.frame containing real-time quantitative
RT-PCR data
na.rm
a logical value indicating whether NA values should be
stripped before the computation proceeds.
Value
numeric vector with gene expression stability values
Details
The gene expression stability value M is defined as the average pairwise
normalization factor; i.e., one needs to specify data from at least two
genes. For more details see Vandesompele et al. (2002).
References
Jo Vandesompele, Katleen De Preter, Filip Pattyn et al. (2002). Accurate
normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging
of multiple internal control genes.
Genome Biology 2002. 3(7):research0034.1-0034.11.
http://genomebiology.com/2002/3/7/research/0034/