Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28400976›Full record

ArticleTranslational neuroscience2017

ISS-N1 makes the First FDA-approved Drug for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

Eric W Ottesen

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Translational neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
105citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.3field-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

105 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Spinal muscular atrophy: Biology, pathogenesis, and therapeutic advances.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2026
    Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Single Antisense Oligonucleotides Correct Diverse Splicing Mutations in Hotspot Exons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Pre-mRNA Splicing Modulation by Antisense Oligonucleotides.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Article

45 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eric W OttesenDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States of America.
Iowa State University · US

Funding

Splicing Regulation of Spinal Muscular Atrophy GenesR01NS055925 · NINDS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SINGH, RAVINDRA N · 2006 to 2023
$5.6M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS055925
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the leading genetic diseases of children and infants. SMA is caused by deletions or mutations of

Indexed as

antisense oligonucleotidesIONIS-SMNRXISIS-SMNRXISS-N1nusinersenSMNspinal muscular atrophySpinrazasplicing regulationsurvival motor neuron protein

Identifiers

PMID28400976
PMCPMC5382937
OpenAlexW2587538450

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.