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ArticleGenomics & informatics2012

Alternative splicing and its impact as a cancer diagnostic marker.

Yun-Ji Kim, Heui-Soo Kim

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Article in Genomics & informatics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Alternative splicing and cancer: a systematic review.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2021
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  7. Single Antisense Oligonucleotides Correct Diverse Splicing Mutations in Hotspot Exons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Characterization of Alternative Splicing in High-Risk Wilms' Tumors.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  20. Expression of evolutionarily novel genes in tumors.Infectious agents and cancer · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yun-Ji KimDepartment of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea.
Heui-Soo Kim
Pusan National University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most genes are processed by alternative splicing for gene expression, resulting in the complexity of the transcriptome in eukaryotes. It allows a limited number of genes to encode various proteins with intricate functions. Alternative splicing is regulated by genetic mutations in cis-regulatory factors and epigenetic events. Furthermore, splicing events occur differently according to cell type, developmental stage, and various diseases, including cancer. Genome instability and flexible proteomes by alternative splicing could affect cancer cells to grow and survive, leading to metastasis. Cancer cells that are transformed by aberrant and uncontrolled mechanisms could produce alternative splicing to maintain and spread them continuously. Splicing variants in various cancers represent crucial roles for tumorigenesis. Taken together, the identification of alternative spliced variants as biomarkers to distinguish between normal and cancer cells could cast light on tumorigenesis.

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alternative splicingbiological markersneoplasmsneoplastic cell transformation

Identifiers

PMID23105933
PMCPMC3480681
OpenAlexW2135898240

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