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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2016

Translating RNA sequencing into clinical diagnostics: opportunities and challenges.

Sara A Byron, Kendall R Van Keuren-Jensen, David M Engelthaler, John D Carpten, David W Craig

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 426 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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426citing 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

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

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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

5 authors.

Sara A ByronCenter for Translational Innovation, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, USA.
Kendall R Van Keuren-JensenNeurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, USA.
David M EngelthalerPathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, USA.
John D CarptenIntegrated Cancer Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, USA.
David W CraigNeurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, USA.

Funding

exRNA signatures Predict Outcomes after brain injuryUH3TR000891 · NCATS · TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INST · PI ADELSON, P. DAVID, HUENTELMAN, MATT · 2015 to 2017
$3.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UH3 TR000891
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the emergence of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technologies, RNA-based biomolecules hold expanded promise for their diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic applicability in various diseases, including cancers and infectious diseases. Detection of gene fusions and differential expression of known disease-causing transcripts by RNA-seq represent some of the most immediate opportunities. However, it is the diversity of RNA species detected through RNA-seq that holds new promise for the multi-faceted clinical applicability of RNA-based measures, including the potential of extracellular RNAs as non-invasive diagnostic indicators of disease. Ongoing efforts towards the establishment of benchmark standards, assay optimization for clinical conditions and demonstration of assay reproducibility are required to expand the clinical utility of RNA-seq.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingComputational BiologyDiagnostic Tests, RoutineDiseaseHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansRNASequence Analysis, RNARNA

Identifiers

PMID26996076
PMCPMC7097555

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