Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19778712›Full record

ReviewSeminars in pediatric neurology2009

Model organisms inform the search for the genes and developmental pathology underlying malformations of the human hindbrain.

Kimberly A Aldinger, Gina E Elsen, Victoria E Prince, Kathleen J Millen

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Seminars in pediatric neurology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. From gene to geometry: the molecular morphogenesis of the fourth ventricle angle and its role in predicting brainstem dysfunction among Chiari I malformation patients.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kimberly A AldingerDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Gina E Elsen
Victoria E Prince
Kathleen J Millen
University of Chicago · US

Funding

Roles of Zic Genes in Vertebrate Hindbrain DevelopmentR01NS050386 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MILLEN, KATHLEEN JOYCE · 2004 to 2010
$2.1M
Mouse models of human cerebellar malformationsR56NS050386 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MILLEN, KATHLEEN JOYCE · 2008 to 2008
$324k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS050386NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS050386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Congenital malformations of the human hindbrain, including the cerebellum, are poorly understood largely because their recognition is a relatively recent advance for imaging diagnostics. Cerebellar malformations are the most obvious and best characterized hindbrain malformations due to their relative ease of viewing by magnetic resonance imaging and the recent identification of several causative genes (Millen et al. Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:12-19, 2008). Malformations of the pons and medulla have also been described both in isolation and in association with cerebellar malformations (Barkovich et al. Ann Neurol 62:625-639, 2007). Although little is understood regarding the specific developmental pathologies underlying hindbrain malformations in humans, much is known regarding the mechanisms and genes driving hindbrain development in vertebrate model organisms. Thus, studies in vertebrate models provide a developmental framework in which to categorize human hindbrain malformations and serve to provide information regarding disrupted developmental processes and candidate genes. Here, we survey the basic principles of vertebrate hindbrain development and integrate our current knowledge of human hindbrain malformations into this framework.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrain DiseasesCentral Nervous SystemCerebellumDisease Models, AnimalHumansRhombencephalon

Identifiers

PMID19778712
PMCPMC2778478
OpenAlexW1987703099

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.