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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2010

Annotating non-coding regions of the genome.

Roger P Alexander, Gang Fang, Joel Rozowsky, Michael Snyder, Mark B Gerstein

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 259 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

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

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  7. Identification of Long Noncoding RNA by In Situ Hybridization Approaches.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  17. Organismal complexity strongly correlates with the number of protein families and domains.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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199 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

5 authors.

Roger P AlexanderProgram in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Gang Fang
Joel Rozowsky
Michael Snyder
Mark B Gerstein

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most of the human genome consists of non-protein-coding DNA. Recently, progress has been made in annotating these non-coding regions through the interpretation of functional genomics experiments and comparative sequence analysis. One can conceptualize functional genomics analysis as involving a sequence of steps: turning the output of an experiment into a 'signal' at each base pair of the genome; smoothing this signal and segmenting it into small blocks of initial annotation; and then clustering these small blocks into larger derived annotations and networks. Finally, one can relate functional genomics annotations to conserved units and measures of conservation derived from comparative sequence analysis.

Indexed as

Genome, HumanAnimalsChromosome MappingConserved SequenceDNA, IntergenicDNA Transposable ElementsGenomicsHumansPseudogenesRegulatory Elements, TranscriptionalSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNATandem Repeat SequencesDNA, IntergenicDNA Transposable Elements

Identifiers

PMID20628352

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