We also extracted the flanking sequence motifs for the Alu Y subfamily in set E. The order of ranking the first flanking sequence from the top to the bottom was A, C, T and G, according to the probability scale.
Actin, APT2 and Pex4 were always ranked as the seventh, eighth and ninth most stable reference genes (respectively), but there was no consistent order of ranking for the other reference genes.
However, only Pp2aa3 was consistently ranked by Normfinder, geNorm and BestKeeper as one of the most stable genes in the leaf bud/leaf and mature organs sample sets, and there was no consistency between the algorithms in the order of ranking for the most stable genes (Table 2).
The other officials on the new committee in order of ranking and their expected portfolios are Zhang Dejiang, head of the National People's Congress; Yu Zhengsheng, who will run a similar advisory body; Liu Yunshan, vice president and overseer of propaganda; Wang Qishan, the head of an anticorruption agency; and Zhang Gaoli, the executive vice premier, who helps manage the economy.
In order of ranking, they are as follows: New Zealand, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Norway, Australia, Hong Kong/China, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Japan, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Chile, Latvia, South Korea, South Africa, Israel and Spain.
