Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22904683›Full record

SynthesisNeoplasia (New York, N.Y.)2012

Identification of cell surface targets through meta-analysis of microarray data.

Henry Haeberle, Joel T Dudley, Jonathan T C Liu, Atul J Butte, Christopher H Contag

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. A review of computational drug repurposing.Translational and clinical pharmacology · 2019
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Henry HaeberleDepartment of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Joel T Dudley
Jonathan T C Liu
Atul J Butte
Christopher H Contag
Stanford University · US

Funding

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING IN MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCEST15LM007033 · NLM · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SYLVIA KATINA PLEVRITIS · 1985 to 2026
$25.5M
Task Specific Project 2U54CA136465 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WENDER, PAUL ANTHONY · 2008 to 2013
$5.3M
Repositioning drugs for the treatment of small cell lung cancerR01GM079719 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BUTTE, ATUL J · 2006 to 2015
$4.4M
Dual-axis Confocal Microscope for Image-guided Resection of MedulloblastomaK99EB008557 · NIBIB · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, JONATHAN T.C. · 2009 to 2010
$98k
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA136465NCI NIH HHS U54CA136465NIBIB NIH HHS K99 EB008557NIBIB NIH HHS K99EB008557NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079719NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM079719NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-resolution image guidance for resection of residual tumor cells would enable more precise and complete excision for more effective treatment of cancers, such as medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain cancer. Numerous studies have shown that brain tumor patient outcomes correlate with the precision of resection. To enable guided resection with molecular specificity and cellular resolution, molecular probes that effectively delineate brain tumor boundaries are essential. Therefore, we developed a bioinformatics approach to analyze micro-array datasets for the identification of transcripts that encode candidate cell surface biomarkers that are highly enriched in medulloblastoma. The results identified 380 genes with greater than a two-fold increase in the expression in the medulloblastoma compared with that in the normal cerebellum. To enrich for targets with accessibility for extracellular molecular probes, we further refined this list by filtering it with gene ontology to identify genes with protein localization on, or within, the plasma membrane. To validate this meta-analysis, the top 10 candidates were evaluated with immunohistochemistry. We identified two targets, fibrillin 2 and EphA3, which specifically stain medulloblastoma. These results demonstrate a novel bioinformatics approach that successfully identified cell surface and extracellular candidate markers enriched in medulloblastoma versus adjacent cerebellum. These two proteins are high-value targets for the development of tumor-specific probes in medulloblastoma. This bioinformatics method has broad utility for the identification of accessible molecular targets in a variety of cancers and will enable probe development for guided resection.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingBiomarkers, TumorCerebellar NeoplasmsComputational BiologyGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMedulloblastomaOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisBiomarkers, Tumor

Identifiers

PMID22904683
PMCPMC3421962
OpenAlexW1278212290

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