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ArticleNature medicine2010

The future of genetic research on neurodegeneration.

Christine Van Broeckhoven

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Article in Nature medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Frontiers in genetics · 2022
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  3. Somatic alpha-synuclein mutations in Parkinson's disease: hypothesis and preliminary data.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2013
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  6. Genetics of dementia.Seminars in neurology · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Christine Van BroeckhovenNeurodegenerative Brain Diseases Group, Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Antwerpen, Belgium. christine.vanbroeckhoven@molgen.vib-ua.be

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Why, with all the progress in the field of neurodegeneration, do we still lack disease-modifying drugs that tackle the primary defect of severe cell loss? How much progress has been made toward this goal? Have we spent our time and resources wisely? And, most important, is there room for improvement? This commentary highlights several problems faced by researchers in studying the genetic etiology of neurodegenerative diseases and seeks to provide direction in overcoming some of these obstacles.

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Genetic ResearchAge of OnsetAnimalsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansMiceNerve Degeneration

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PMID21052076

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