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ArticlePeerJ2017

CTLA-4 polymorphisms associate with breast cancer susceptibility in Asians: a meta-analysis.

Zhiming Dai, Tian Tian, Meng Wang, Xinghan Liu, Shuai Lin, Pengtao Yang, Kang Liu, Yi Zheng, Peng Xu, Meng Liu and 2 more

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Article in PeerJ, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 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

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhiming Dai *Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Tian Tian *Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Meng Wang *Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xinghan LiuDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Shuai LinDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Pengtao YangDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Kang LiuDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Yi ZhengDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Peng XuDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Meng LiuDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xuewen YangDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Zhijun DaiDepartment of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have investigated the association between cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (

Indexed as

Breast cancerCTLA-4Meta-analysisPolymorphismSusceptibility

Identifiers

PMID28097051
PMCPMC5228500
OpenAlexW2567788917

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