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ArticlePLoS genetics2012

Genome instability caused by a germline mutation in the human DNA repair gene POLB.

Robert W Sobol

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Article in PLoS genetics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Combining Electrochemical Reduction with Biosynthesis for Directed Conversion of COAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  2. DNA polymerase β suppresses somatic indels at CpG dinucleotides in developing cortical neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Genome Stability by DNA Polymerase β in Neural Progenitors Contributes to Neuronal Differentiation in Cortical Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert W SobolDepartment of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. rws9@pitt.edu
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

Novel approaches to enhance tumor cell cytotoxicity of alkylating agentsR01CA148629 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA · PI SOBOL, ROBERT W · 2010 to 2021
$3.4M
DNA repair deficient cells for analysisR44GM087798 · NIGMS · TREVIGEN, INC. · PI GEORGE, JAY, SOBOL, ROBERT W · 2010 to 2011
$2.5M
CometChip: Enabling Translation of DNA Damage and Repair AssaysR21ES019498 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ENGELWARD, BEVIN P., SOBOL, ROBERT W · 2011 to 2012
$434k
DNA Repair-on-a-Chip: Spatially Encoded Microwell ArraysR43ES021116 · NIEHS · TREVIGEN, INC. · PI ENGELWARD, BEVIN P., GEORGE, JAY · 2011 to 2011
$319k
Discovery Tools for Chemotherapy Resistance to Cell Death.R43GM099213 · NIGMS · TREVIGEN, INC. · PI GEORGE, JAY, SOBOL, ROBERT W · 2012 to 2012
$217k
DNA repair deficient human cells for genomic variation analysisR43GM087798 · NIGMS · TREVIGEN, INC. · PI GEORGE, JAY, SOBOL, ROBERT W · 2009 to 2009
$200k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cell Transformation, NeoplasticChromosome AberrationsDNA Polymerase betaAnimalsGenomic InstabilityHumansPolymorphism, Single NucleotideDNA Polymerase beta

Identifiers

PMID23144636
PMCPMC3493457
OpenAlexW1982799890

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