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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2011

MicroRNAs and developmental timing.

Victor Ambros

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
172citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

172 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 319 citations in OpenAlex.

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112 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victor AmbrosUMass Medical School, Molecular Medicine, 373 Plantation St, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. victor.ambros@umassmed.edu
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

GENETIC CONTROL OF NEMATODE DEVELOPMENTR01GM034028 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI AMBROS, VICTOR · 1985 to 2018
$7.0M
Functional analysis of microRNA genes in DrosophilaR01GM066826 · NIGMS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI AMBROS, VICTOR · 2004 to 2007
$1.1M
Developmental Regulation of MicroRNA ExpressionR01GM088365 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI AMBROS, VICTOR · 2009 to 2010
$771k
Chemical Genetics of LIN-28 in C. ElegansR21CA143711 · NCI · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI AMBROS, VICTOR · 2010 to 2011
$388k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA143711NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM034028NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM066826NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs regulate temporal transitions in gene expression associated with cell fate progression and differentiation throughout animal development. Genetic analysis of developmental timing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans identified two evolutionarily conserved microRNAs, lin-4/mir-125 and let-7, that regulate cell fate progression and differentiation in C. elegans cell lineages. MicroRNAs perform analogous developmental timing functions in other animals, including mammals. By regulating cell fate choices and transitions between pluripotency and differentiation, microRNAs help to orchestrate developmental events throughout the developing animal, and to play tissue homeostasis roles important for disease, including cancer.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCell DifferentiationCell LineageHumansMicroRNAsMicroRNAs

Identifiers

PMID21530229
PMCPMC3149784
OpenAlexW2152979236

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Registered trials

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