Delta Delta Ct method for multiple reference genes?
Posted 23 January 2011 - 05:27 PM
I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether you can use the delta delta Ct method for qPCR data analysis with multiple reference genes and if anyone would know how to go about this?
Posted 31 January 2011 - 08:19 AM
You can use this Pfaffl equation:
Where E is the efficiency of each gene. If you put "2" as E, it's the same as delta-delta. But if you do a dilution series for each gene and actualy calculate the efficiencies, you may get more accurate results.
Now how to normalise to multiple references - instead of single E^deltaCP for one gene you make a geometric mean of all of them. That means if you have two housekeepings, in the denominator you will multiply each E^deltaCP and then take square root of the result. (if three, than again, multiply and then take cube-root, and so on).
The final equation is from this paper Hellemans, Mortier, De Paepe, Speleman, Vandesompele (2007) (but I had to ask mathematicians to explain in, because it looks horrible).
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