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Revisiting global gene expression analysis.

Jakob Lovén, David A Orlando, Alla A Sigova, Charles Y Lin, Peter B Rahl, Christopher B Burge, David L Levens, Tong Ihn Lee, Richard A Young

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Review in Cell, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 358 papers.

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358citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

358 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. LUMINIDEPENDENS orchestrates global transcriptional repression inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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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

9 authors.

Jakob LovénWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
David A Orlando
Alla A Sigova
Charles Y Lin
Peter B Rahl
Christopher B Burge
David L Levens
Tong Ihn Lee
Richard A Young

Funding

Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Living CellsR01HG002668 · NHGRI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI YOUNG, RICHARD · 2003 to 2016
$17.9M
Regulation and Function of Alternative mRNA Isoform Expression in MammalsR01HG002439 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2002 to 2024
$9.7M
c-Myc FunctionZIABC011465 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI LEVENS, DAVID L. · 2012 to 2025
$8.6M
Epigenomic Mapping in Human Tumor Stem CellsR01CA146445 · NCI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI INCE, TAN A., LEE, TONG IHN · 2009 to 2013
$3.1M
NCI NIH HHS CA146445NCI NIH HHS R01 CA146445NHGRI NIH HHS HG002668NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002439NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene expression analysis is a widely used and powerful method for investigating the transcriptional behavior of biological systems, for classifying cell states in disease, and for many other purposes. Recent studies indicate that common assumptions currently embedded in experimental and analytical practices can lead to misinterpretation of global gene expression data. We discuss these assumptions and describe solutions that should minimize erroneous interpretation of gene expression data from multiple analysis platforms.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycSequence Analysis, RNATranscription, GeneticMYC protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc

Identifiers

PMID23101621
PMCPMC3505597

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