Selection of suitable reference genes for analysis of salivary transcriptome in non-syndromic autistic male children

Y Panahi, F Salasar Moghaddam, Z Ghasemi… - International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Y Panahi, F Salasar Moghaddam, Z Ghasemi, M Hadi Jafari, R Shervin Badv, MR Eskandari
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2016mdpi.com
Childhood autism is a severe form of complex genetically heterogeneous and behaviorally
defined set of neurodevelopmental diseases, collectively termed as autism spectrum
disorders (ASD). Reverse transcriptase quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) is a highly
sensitive technique for transcriptome analysis, and it has been frequently used in ASD gene
expression studies. However, normalization to stably expressed reference gene (s) is
necessary to validate any alteration reported at the mRNA level for target genes. The main …
Childhood autism is a severe form of complex genetically heterogeneous and behaviorally defined set of neurodevelopmental diseases, collectively termed as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Reverse transcriptase quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) is a highly sensitive technique for transcriptome analysis, and it has been frequently used in ASD gene expression studies. However, normalization to stably expressed reference gene(s) is necessary to validate any alteration reported at the mRNA level for target genes. The main goal of the present study was to find the most stable reference genes in the salivary transcriptome for RT-qPCR analysis in non-syndromic male childhood autism. Saliva samples were obtained from nine drug naïve non-syndromic male children with autism and also sex-, age-, and location-matched healthy controls using the RNA-stabilizer kit from DNA Genotek. A systematic two-phased measurement of whole saliva mRNA levels for eight common housekeeping genes (HKGs) was carried out by RT-qPCR, and the stability of expression for each candidate gene was analyzed using two specialized algorithms, geNorm and NormFinder, in parallel. Our analysis shows that while the frequently used HKG ACTB is not a suitable reference gene, the combination of GAPDH and YWHAZ could be recommended for normalization of RT-qPCR analysis of salivary transcriptome in non-syndromic autistic male children.
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