Quantitative PCR & Housekeeping Genes

From: Susan Zunino (szunino@biologie.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 07:32:08 EST


GAPDH is my choice for a good housekeeping gene.  Yes, I always try to use
primers that span an intron (or a few) if I can.  Also, you could run a PCR
reaction with RNA only to see what level of genomic DNA contamination you
might have.

Dr. Susan J. Zunino
Lehrstuhl fur Genetik
University of Erlangen
Staudtstr. 5
91058 Erlangen
Germany
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e-mail:   szunino@biologie.uni-erlangen.de



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