Evaluation of long noncoding RNA MALAT1 as a candidate blood-based biomarker for the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer

Table 2 Results of reference analysis using RefFinder [[21]] to evaluate the most stable reference across the study groups

Algorithm	Reference ranking
	1 (most stable)	2	3 (least stable)
RefFinder (comprehensive ranking)	GM*	GAPDH	HPRT1
geNorm	GM* & GAPDH		HPRT1
NormFinder	GM*	GAPDH	HPRT1
BestKeeper	HPRT1	GM*	GAPDH
Comparative ΔCt method	GM*	GAPDH	HPRT1

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