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ReviewCell2016

Ever-Changing Landscapes: Transcriptional Enhancers in Development and Evolution.

Hannah K Long, Sara L Prescott, Joanna Wysocka

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Review in Cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 599 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
599citing papers in PubMed
44.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

599 citing papers in PubMed, 1,024 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Heterozygous Med13l mice recapitulate a developmental growth delay and craniofacial anomalies seen in MED13L syndrome.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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  17. The genetic foundations of convergent traits.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026
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539 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hannah K LongDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Sara L PrescottDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Joanna WysockaDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: wysocka@stanford.edu.
Stanford Medicine · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Mechanisms of enhancer activation in early developmentR01GM112720 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WYSOCKA, JOANNA · 2015 to 2018
$1.2M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112720Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A class of cis-regulatory elements, called enhancers, play a central role in orchestrating spatiotemporally precise gene-expression programs during development. Consequently, divergence in enhancer sequence and activity is thought to be an important mediator of inter- and intra-species phenotypic variation. Here, we give an overview of emerging principles of enhancer function, current models of enhancer architecture, genomic substrates from which enhancers emerge during evolution, and the influence of three-dimensional genome organization on long-range gene regulation. We discuss intricate relationships between distinct elements within complex regulatory landscapes and consider their potential impact on specificity and robustness of transcriptional regulation.

Indexed as

Enhancer Elements, GeneticEvolution, MolecularGenome-Wide Association StudyTranscription, GeneticBloodBlood CellsEpigenomicsHematopoiesisHumansQuantitative Trait Loci

Identifiers

PMID27863239
PMCPMC5123704
OpenAlexW2556513628

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Registered trials

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