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ReviewThe Yale journal of biology and medicine2016

Epigenetics of Renal Development and Disease.

Sylvia A Hilliard, Samir S El-Dahr

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Review in The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2016. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Sylvia A HilliardDepartment of Pediatrics, Tulane University, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
Samir S El-DahrDepartment of Pediatrics, Tulane University, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
Tulane University · US

Funding

Single-Cell Epigenomics, Transcriptomics, and Bioinformatics CoreP50DK096373 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Silvia Medrano · 2012 to 2026
$13.8M
Translational Research in Hypertension and Renal BiologyP30GM103337 · NIGMS · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI NAVAR, LUIS GABRIEL · 2012 to 2016
$5.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS P50 DK096373NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM103337
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An understanding of epigenetics is indispensable to our understanding of gene regulation under normal and pathological states. This knowledge will help with designing better therapeutic approaches in regenerative tissue medicine. Epigenetics allows us to parse out the mechanisms by which transcriptional regulators gain access to specific gene loci thereby imprinting epigenetic information affecting chromatin function. This epigenetic memory forms the basis of cell lineage specification in multicellular organisms. Post-translational modifications to DNA and histones in the nucleosome core form characteristic epigenetic codes which are distinct for self-renewing and primed progenitor cell populations. Studies of chromatin modifiers and modifications in renal development and disease have been gaining momentum. Both congenital and adult renal diseases have a gene-environment component, which involves alterations to the epigenetic information imprinted during development. This epigenetic memory must be characterized to establish optimal treatment of both acute and chronic renal diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsChromatinEpigenesis, GeneticHistonesHumansKidneyProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalChromatinHistonesbivalent histone codechromatin modifiersEpigeneticsHATsHDACshistone modificationsKidneykidney diseasenephron progenitors

Identifiers

PMID28018145
PMCPMC5168832
OpenAlexW2582771362

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