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ReviewDiscovery medicine2013

The quest for better understanding of HLA-disease association: scenes from a road less travelled by.

Joseph Holoshitz

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Review in Discovery medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The Genetic Basis of Moyamoya Disease.Translational stroke research · 2022
    Review
  7. HLA-G and the MHC Cusp Theory.Frontiers in immunology · 2022
    Review
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  9. Uncovering a Shared Epitope-Activated Protein Citrullination Pathway.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2020
    Article
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  13. HLA testing in the molecular diagnostic laboratory.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2019
    Review
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  18. Human Leukocyte Antigen-Disease Associations in Rheumatoid Arthritis.Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America · 2017
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph HoloshitzDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. jholo@umich.edu
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Immune Modulating HLA-Coded Ligands in Rheumatoid ArthritisR01AR059085 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HOLOSHITZ, JOSEPH · 2011 to 2020
$3.8M
Class II MHC Allele-Specific Signaling: A New Paradigm in Disease PathogenesisR01GM088560 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HOLOSHITZ, JOSEPH · 2009 to 2012
$1.2M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR059085NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dozens of human diseases and health traits are significantly more common among individuals carrying particular human leukocyte antigens (HLA) alleles. The underlying mechanism of this phenomenon, commonly referred to as "HLA-disease association," has been the subject of a decades-long debate. The prevailing hypotheses implicate an auto-aggressive immune response due to aberrant presentation of self-, self-mimicking-, or altered self-antigens by HLA molecules. However, the identity of such putative antigens remains elusive in the vast majority of HLA-associated diseases. Moreover, antigen presentation-based hypotheses are difficult to reconcile with epidemiologic data and functional characteristics of HLA molecules. To provide better answers to these inconsistencies an alternative theory involving allele-based, antigen presentation-independent mechanism is proposed here. Recent research findings in rheumatoid arthritis, an emblematic HLA-associated disease, lend support to the proposed theory.

Indexed as

AllelesAntigen PresentationGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseAnimalsAutoantigensDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1HLA AntigensHumansAutoantigensHLA Antigens

Identifiers

PMID23998445
PMCPMC4064294
OpenAlexW1813210224

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Registered trials

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