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ArticleNature2014

Policy: NIH to balance sex in cell and animal studies.

Janine A Clayton, Francis S Collins

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Article in Nature, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 944 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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944citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

944 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  18. Claims of sex-dependent effects in the behavioral and brain sciences are infrequently supported by valid statistical comparisons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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884 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Janine A Clayton
Francis S Collins

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Animal ExperimentationNational Institutes of Health (U.S.)Research DesignSex CharacteristicsSex RatioAnimalsAnimals, LaboratoryBiomedical ResearchCell LineDisease Models, AnimalEncephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, ExperimentalFemaleFinancing, OrganizedHumansMaleMultiple Sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID24834516
PMCPMC5101948

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