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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2008

Cellular mechanisms of tumour suppression by the retinoblastoma gene.

Deborah L Burkhart, Julien Sage

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 551 papers.

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551citing papers 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

551 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Genetic Variation inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  12. Synthetic lethality between RB-loss and E2F3 inhibition in small cell cancers targeted by pyrimidine synthesis blockade.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  15. One hotspotFrontiers in oncology · 2026
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491 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Deborah L BurkhartCancer Biology Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Julien Sage

Funding

Leveraging innovative technologies in basic and clinical cancer researchT32CA009302 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LAURA D ATTARDI, Aaron M Newman · 1985 to 2026
$19.1M
The RB pathway in liver cancerR01CA114102 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SAGE, JULIEN · 2006 to 2016
$2.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA114102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The retinoblastoma (RB) tumour suppressor gene is functionally inactivated in a broad range of paediatric and adult cancers, and a plethora of cellular functions and partners have been identified for the RB protein. Data from human tumours and studies from mouse models indicate that loss of RB function contributes to both cancer initiation and progression. However, we still do not know the identity of the cell types in which RB normally prevents cancer initiation in vivo, and the specific functions of RB that suppress distinct aspects of the tumorigenic process are poorly understood.

Indexed as

Genes, RetinoblastomaGenes, Tumor SuppressorAnimalsCell CycleCell DifferentiationHumansMutationNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasmsNeovascularization, PathologicProtein BindingRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalStem Cells

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PMID18650841
PMCPMC6996492

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