Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Open Surgery for Trigger Digits in Diabetes.

Trigger digit is a common condition of the hand. Diabetes has a known association with the development of trigger digit. It is thought to influence the clinical presentation and efficacy of open surgical release.

High expression stability of microtubule affinity regulating kinase 3 (MARK3) makes it a reliable reference gene.

Difference in gene expressions is characteristic of the function of different cell types and those genes with low expression variance can be used as standards for quantitative gene expression studies. Microarray technology is used to study global gene expression within a cell; hence, represents a suitable source of data to mine for genes with low expression variance. The coefficient of variation (COV) of each gene was determined and a threshold of less than 0.