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From: Possible extracardiac predictors of aortic dissection in Marfan syndrome

Figure 2

Ln2 α values describing the relative expression of the MMP-3 (a), MMP-9 (b) and c-FOS (c) genes. ΔCt is Ct(target gene) - Ct(GAPDH endogenous control gene) in the same sample, ά value is ΔCt(control sample) - ΔCt(target sample). This value is used to calculate expression fold value by the equation (expression fold value Ln 2ά). Significantly up- or down-regulated if the Ln ratio of the ά value is >1 or < −1, respectively, with p < 0.05.

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