Figure 2 Increased EGR1 and FOSB gene expression in mutDFNA5-transfected HEK293T cells. RNA samples were collected from HEK293T cells transfected with either wtDFNA5 or mutDFNA5 and gene expression was measured by real-time rtPCR. Significantly increased expression was seen in mutDFNA5 at 12 h [p(egr1) = 0.000; p(fosB) = 0.006], 15 h [p(egr1) = 0.017; p(fosB) = 0.000] and 18 h [p(egr1) = 0.004; p(fosB) = 0.026] post-transfection. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001. CNRQ, calibrated normalized relative quantities.