Figure 3

Comparison of results of equivalence tests in all studied subgroups of the 1st cohort for two most stable genes PSMB2 (the left upper part) and RPL32 (the left lower part) and two most commonly used genes ACTB (the right upper part) and GAPDH (the right lower part) in bronchoalveolar (BAL) cells. 1 – Type of lung disease; 2 – Treatment; 3 – Smoking status; 4 – Gender; 5 – BAL Macrophage count; 6 – BAL Lymphocyte count; 7 – BAL Neutrophil count; 8 – BAL Eosinophil count. For more details see the legend to Fig. 2.