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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2003

Regulatory gene networks and the properties of the developmental process.

Eric H Davidson, David R McClay, Leroy Hood

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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77citing papers in PubMed
9.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 227 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Network architecture and regulatory logic in neural crest development.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine · 2020
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  17. Threshold response and bistability in gene regulation by small noncoding RNA.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2018
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  20. What determines direction of asymmetry: genes, environment or chance?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
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17 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eric H DavidsonDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. davidson@caltech.edu
David R McClay
Leroy Hood
Institute for Systems Biology · USCalifornia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Transcriptional Casualty in Embryonic Morphogenesis: from the Specifications GRNP01HD037105 · NICHD · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 1999 to 2018
$27.1M
GENE LIBRARY RESOURCE FOR THE SEA URCHIN S. PURPURATUSP40RR015044 · NCRR · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 2000 to 2011
$7.9M
COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF GENE REGULATORY PROGRAMR01GM061005 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 2000 to 2011
$4.5M
HOMOZYGOUS SEA URCHIN AS A POTENTIAL RESEARCH RESOURCER01RR006591 · NCRR · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 1991 to 2004
$1.4M
NCRR NIH HHS P40 RR015044NCRR NIH HHS R01 RR006591NCRR NIH HHS RR-06591NCRR NIH HHS RR-15044NICHD NIH HHS HD-37105NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD037105NIGMS NIH HHS GM-61005NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomic instructions for development are encoded in arrays of regulatory DNA. These specify large networks of interactions among genes producing transcription factors and signaling components. The architecture of such networks both explains and predicts developmental phenomenology. Although network analysis is yet in its early stages, some fundamental commonalities are already emerging. Two such are the use of multigenic feedback loops to ensure the progressivity of developmental regulatory states and the prevalence of repressive regulatory interactions in spatial control processes. Gene regulatory networks make it possible to explain the process of development in causal terms and eventually will enable the redesign of developmental regulatory circuitry to achieve different outcomes.

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GenomeAnimalsDNAEmbryonic and Fetal DevelopmentDNANASA Discipline Evolutionary BiologyNon-NASA Center

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PMID12578984
PMCPMC149855
OpenAlexW2135852310

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