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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2009

Regulatory roles of natural antisense transcripts.

Mohammad Ali Faghihi, Claes Wahlestedt

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 451 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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451citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

451 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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391 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mohammad Ali FaghihiMolecular and Integrative Neurosciences Department, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, USA.
Claes Wahlestedt

Funding

Regulatory RNAs as mediators and biomarkers in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01NS063974 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI WAHLESTEDT, CLAES ROBERT · 2009 to 2012
$1.6M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS063974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian genomes encode numerous natural antisense transcripts, but the function of these transcripts is not well understood. Functional validation studies indicate that antisense transcripts are not a uniform group of regulatory RNAs but instead belong to multiple categories with some common features. Recent evidence indicates that antisense transcripts are frequently functional and use diverse transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulatory mechanisms to carry out a wide variety of biological roles.

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AnimalsGene Expression RegulationHumansRNA, AntisenseRNA, Antisense

Identifiers

PMID19638999
PMCPMC2850559

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