Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19233641›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2009

Oncogenic gene fusions in epithelial carcinomas.

John R Prensner, Arul M Chinnaiyan

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

John R PrensnerMichigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. prensner@umich.edu
Arul M Chinnaiyan
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

VACCINIA PSA FOR ANDROGEN-MODULATED POST-SURGICAL RECURRENCE OF PROSTATE CANCERP50CA069568 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI COONEY, KATHLEEN A · 1995 to 2013
$31.3M
Epitomic Biomarkers of Prostate CancerU01CA111275 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CHINNAIYAN, ARUL M, RUBIN, MARK A. · 2004 to 2015
$6.8M
Molecuar Sub-typing of Prostate Cancer Based on Recurrent Gene FusionsR01CA132874 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CHINNAIYAN, ARUL M · 2009 to 2013
$1.2M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS P50 CA069568NCI NIH HHS R01 CA132874NCI NIH HHS U01 CA111275
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New discoveries regarding recurrent chromosomal aberrations in epithelial tumors have challenged the view that gene fusions play a minor role in these cancers. It is now known that recurrent fusions characterize significant subsets of prostate, breast, lung and renal-cell carcinomas, among others. This work has generated new insights into the molecular subtypes of tumors and highlighted important advances in bioinformatics, sequencing, and microarray technology as tools for gene fusion discovery. Given the ubiquity of tyrosine kinases and transcription factors in gene fusions, further interest in the potential 'druggability' of gene fusions with targeted therapeutics has also flourished. Nevertheless, the majority of chromosomal abnormalities in epithelial cancers remain uncharacterized, underscoring the limitations of our knowledge of carcinogenesis and the requirement for further research.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsCarcinomaCarcinoma, Renal CellChromosome AberrationsFemaleForecastingGene FusionHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleModels, GeneticOncogene Proteins, FusionProstatic NeoplasmsOncogene Proteins, Fusion

Identifiers

PMID19233641
PMCPMC2676581
OpenAlexW2044379241

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