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ReviewNature2010

Expansion of the eukaryotic proteome by alternative splicing.

Timothy W Nilsen, Brenton R Graveley

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Review in Nature, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,273 papers.

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1,273citing papers in PubMed
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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

1,273 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Timothy W NilsenCenter for RNA Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA. twn@case.edu
Brenton R Graveley

Funding

Alternative Splicing of the Drosophilia Dscam Pre-mRNAR01GM067842 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI GRAVELEY, BRENTON R. · 2003 to 2014
$3.6M
The Mechanisms and Regulatory Networks of Alternative Splicing in DrosophilaR01GM062516 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI GRAVELEY, BRENTON R. · 2001 to 2009
$2.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062516NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067842
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The collection of components required to carry out the intricate processes involved in generating and maintaining a living, breathing and, sometimes, thinking organism is staggeringly complex. Where do all of the parts come from? Early estimates stated that about 100,000 genes would be required to make up a mammal; however, the actual number is less than one-quarter of that, barely four times the number of genes in budding yeast. It is now clear that the 'missing' information is in large part provided by alternative splicing, the process by which multiple different functional messenger RNAs, and therefore proteins, can be synthesized from a single gene.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingAnimalsComputational BiologyEukaryotaEvolution, MolecularHumansProteomeRNA, MessengerProteomeRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID20110989
PMCPMC3443858

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