Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19158787›Full record

ReviewNature2009

Small RNAs in transcriptional gene silencing and genome defence.

Danesh Moazed

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 384 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
384citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
112.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

384 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 838 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pearl millet response to drought: A review.Frontiers in plant science · 2023
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  8. The enigma of the B chromosome-specific behaviour.Frontiers in plant science · 2026
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  16. Recent Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy Aided by Regulatory Non-Coding RNA: A Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025
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  17. Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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324 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Danesh MoazedHoward Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. danesh_moazed@hms.harvard.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

RNAi-mediated Targeting of Hetorochromatin AssemblyR01GM072805 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI MOAZED, DANESH · 2005 to 2025
$6.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small RNA molecules of about 20-30 nucleotides have emerged as powerful regulators of gene expression and genome stability. Studies in fission yeast and multicellular organisms suggest that effector complexes, directed by small RNAs, target nascent chromatin-bound non-coding RNAs and recruit chromatin-modifying complexes. Interactions between small RNAs and nascent non-coding transcripts thus reveal a new mechanism for targeting chromatin-modifying complexes to specific chromosome regions and suggest possibilities for how the resultant chromatin states may be inherited during the process of chromosome duplication.

Indexed as

AnimalsChromatinEpigenesis, GeneticGene SilencingGenomeRNA, Small InterferingTranscription, GeneticChromatinRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID19158787
PMCPMC3246369
OpenAlexW2037108634

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Registered trials

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