The authors provide several reasons for why they chose ACTB as the reference gene for RT-qPCR verification of their microarray results, including that it had been previously established as a stable HKG in the literature (referring to a study by Chen et al. on the primary human skin fibroblasts [56]); and in two previous studies on human postmortem brain tissues by the same lab, one in subjects with schizophrenia [46] and one in epilepsy [47]. Here, ACTB is linked to epilepsy.