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ArticleCancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.)2010

Upper airway gene expression in smokers: the mouth as a "window to the soul" of lung carcinogenesis?

Avrum Spira

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Article in Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Avrum SpiraSection of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, and The Pulmonary Center, Boston University Medical Center, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118. aspira@bu.edu
Boston Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This perspective on Boyle et al. (beginning on page 266 in this issue of the journal) explores transcriptomic profiling of upper airway epithelium as a biomarker of host response to tobacco smoke exposure. Boyle et al. have shown a striking relationship between smoking-related gene expression changes in the mouth and bronchus. This relationship suggests that buccal gene expression may serve as a relatively noninvasive surrogate marker of the physiologic response of the lung to tobacco smoke that could be used in large-scale screening and chemoprevention studies for lung cancer.

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Gene Expression ProfilingGene ExpressionGenetic MarkersHumansLung NeoplasmsMouth MucosaSmokingGenetic Markers

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PMID20179303
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