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ArticleEuropean journal of human genetics : EJHG2017

Fading competency of cytogenetic diagnostic laboratories: the alarm bell has started to ring.

Ron Hochstenbach, Anna Slunga-Tallberg, Caroline Devlin, Giovanna Floridia, Marta Rodríguez de Alba, Shama Bhola, Katrina Rack, Ros Hastings

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Article in European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ron HochstenbachDepartment of Genetics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Anna Slunga-TallbergHUSLAB Laboratory of Genetics, Hus, Finland.
Caroline DevlinWest of Scotland Genetic Services, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
Giovanna FloridiaCentro Nazionale Malattie Rare, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Marta Rodríguez de AlbaServicio de Genética Clínica, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.
Shama BholaDepartment of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Katrina RackWomen's Centre, Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.
Ros HastingsWomen's Centre, Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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CytogeneticsGenomicsHumansLaboratories, HospitalSequence Analysis, DNA

Identifiers

PMID28000702
PMCPMC5315513

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