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ReviewEuropean journal of human genetics : EJHG2010

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

Rosanna Weksberg, Cheryl Shuman, J Bruce Beckwith

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Review in European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
215citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
24.9field-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

215 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 687 citations in OpenAlex.

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155 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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Rosanna WeksbergDepartment of Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada. rweksb@sickkids.ca
Cheryl Shuman
J Bruce Beckwith
Hospital for Sick Children · CALoma Linda University · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a model disorder for the study of imprinting, growth dysregulation, and tumorigenesis. Unique observations in this disorder point to an important embryonic developmental window relevant to the observations of increased monozygotic twinning and an increased rate of epigenetic errors after subfertility/assisted reproduction.

Indexed as

Beckwith-Wiedemann SyndromeDiagnosis, DifferentialGenetic CounselingGenetic TestingHumans

Identifiers

PMID19550435
PMCPMC2987155
OpenAlexW1589590998

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.