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ReviewNature2013

Topology of mammalian developmental enhancers and their regulatory landscapes.

Wouter de Laat, Denis Duboule

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Review in Nature, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 292 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
292citing papers in PubMed
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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

292 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Dysregulation of the PATZ1/CTCF Balance Silences ZBTB20 to Drive Melanoma Progression.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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232 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.

Wouter de LaatHubrecht Institute-KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Denis Duboule

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How a complex animal can arise from a fertilized egg is one of the oldest and most fascinating questions of biology, the answer to which is encoded in the genome. Body shape and organ development, and their integration into a functional organism all depend on the precise expression of genes in space and time. The orchestration of transcription relies mostly on surrounding control sequences such as enhancers, millions of which form complex regulatory landscapes in the non-coding genome. Recent research shows that high-order chromosome structures make an important contribution to enhancer functionality by triggering their physical interactions with target genes.

Indexed as

AnimalsDNAEnhancer Elements, GeneticEvolution, MolecularGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenomeHumansMammalsNucleic Acid ConformationPromoter Regions, GeneticDNA

Identifiers

PMID24153303

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Registered trials

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