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ReviewChromosoma2015

Do lamin A and lamin C have unique roles?

Rasha Al-Saaidi, Peter Bross

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Review in Chromosoma, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Lamin A/C as a biomarker for breast cancer.Molecular biology reports · 2025
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  17. The Dynamics of Lamin a During the Cell Cycle.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rasha Al-SaaidiResearch Unit for Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, RASHA.AL-SAAIDI@KI.AU.DK.
Peter Bross
Aarhus University Hospital · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The A-type lamins, lamin A and lamin C, generated from a single gene, LMNA, are major structural components of the nuclear lamina. The two alternative splice products have mostly been studied together because they have been considered to be interchangeable. However, several lines of evidence indicate that in spite of being generated from the same gene and having high similarities in their primary sequences, the two isoforms are not equivalent in different biological aspects in both health and disease. The key question is whether they have both overlapping and unique functions and whether they are distinctly regulated. Based on the so far available experimental evidence, lamin A appears to be the most regulated A-type isoform during development, aging, and disease which indicates that lamin A is implicated in many different biological aspects and may have a greater repertoire of specialized functions than lamin C. The aim of this review is to point out differences between the two major LMNA splice variants and the consequences of these differences on their functions. This may guide further research and be of prime importance for the understanding of the pathogenesis of LMNA mutations.

Indexed as

MutationAlternative SplicingAnimalsHumansLamin Type AMiceProtein IsoformsLamin Type ALMNA protein, humanLmna protein, mouseProtein Isoforms

Identifiers

PMID25283634
OpenAlexW2017572973

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