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ArticleEBioMedicine2017

The association between gene SNPs and cancer predisposition: Correlation or causality?

Hua Tan

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Association BetweenFrontiers in genetics · 2022
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  6. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms ofFrontiers in oncology · 2022
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  9. Journal of Cancer · 2021
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  14. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2019
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  18. Journal of Cancer · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Hua TanCenter for Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Department of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. Electronic address: htan@wakehealth.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

GenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideCase-Control StudiesGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansNeoplasms

Identifiers

PMID28163041
PMCPMC5474513

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