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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2013

Diversifying microRNA sequence and function.

Stefan L Ameres, Phillip D Zamore

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 624 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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624citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

624 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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564 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

2 authors.

Stefan L AmeresInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria. stefan.ameres@ imba.oeaw.ac.at
Phillip D Zamore

Funding

Understanding microRNA Biogenesis and FunctionR01GM065236 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI ZAMORE, PHILLIP D · 2003 to 2014
$5.0M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the expression of most genes in animals, but we are only now beginning to understand how they are generated, assembled into functional complexes and destroyed. Various mechanisms have now been identified that regulate miRNA stability and that diversify miRNA sequences to create distinct isoforms. The production of different isoforms of individual miRNAs in specific cells and tissues may have broader implications for miRNA-mediated gene expression control. Rigorously testing the many discrepant models for how miRNAs function using quantitative biochemical measurements made in vivo and in vitro remains a major challenge for the future.

Indexed as

AnimalsGene ExpressionGenetic VariationHumansMicroRNAsModels, BiologicalRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA StabilityTranscription, GeneticMicroRNAs

Identifiers

PMID23800994

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