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ArticleArthritis research & therapy2005

Crystals in hand.

John Loughlin

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Article in Arthritis research & therapy, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

John LoughlinUniversity of Oxford, Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research Centre, Oxford, UK. john.loughlin@ndcls.ox.ac.uk
NIHR Oxford Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A genetic association of the ENPP1 gene with primary hand osteoarthritis was recently reported in this journal. ENPP1 encodes an enzyme that regulates soft tissue calcification. The study as it stands is far from complete because the actual causal variant(s) within ENPP1 has not been identified and no functional study on the activity of the enzyme in hand osteoarthritis was presented. Nevertheless, the study stimulates interest and will encourage others in the field to test ENPP1 as a possible osteoarthritis susceptibility gene in their cohorts. The genetic basis of osteoarthritis is slowly being uncovered, and this report constitutes another interesting find.

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AdultBashkiriaChromosomes, Human, Pair 6CrystallizationDiphosphatesEthnicityGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenotypeHand BonesHumansLinkage DisequilibriumMicrosatellite RepeatsOsteoarthritisPedigreePhosphoric Diester HydrolasesPolymorphism, Single NucleotideDiphosphatesectonucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase 1Phosphoric Diester HydrolasesPyrophosphatases

Identifiers

PMID16207345
PMCPMC1257447
OpenAlexW1485777341

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