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ReviewNature reviews. Disease primers2017

Severe congenital neutropenias.

Julia Skokowa, David C Dale, Ivo P Touw, Cornelia Zeidler, Karl Welte

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Review in Nature reviews. Disease primers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 198 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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198citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
24.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

198 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 364 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

5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Julia SkokowaDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, Clinical Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
David C DaleDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Ivo P TouwDepartment of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Cornelia ZeidlerDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Karl WelteUniversity Children's Hospital, Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
Erasmus MC · NLMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEUniversity Children's Hospital Tübingen · DEUniversity of Tübingen · DEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Severe Chronic Neutropenia International RegistryR24AI049393 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DALE, DAVID CHANDLER · 2004 to 2019
$10.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R24 AI049393
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe congenital neutropenias are a heterogeneous group of rare haematological diseases characterized by impaired maturation of neutrophil granulocytes. Patients with severe congenital neutropenia are prone to recurrent, often life-threatening infections beginning in their first months of life. The most frequent pathogenic defects are autosomal dominant mutations in ELANE, which encodes neutrophil elastase, and autosomal recessive mutations in HAX1, whose product contributes to the activation of the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) signalling pathway. The pathophysiological mechanisms of these conditions are the object of extensive research and are not fully understood. Furthermore, severe congenital neutropenias may predispose to myelodysplastic syndromes or acute myeloid leukaemia. Molecular events in the malignant progression include acquired mutations in CSF3R (encoding G-CSF receptor) and subsequently in other leukaemia-associated genes (such as RUNX1) in a majority of patients. Diagnosis is based on clinical manifestations, blood neutrophil count, bone marrow examination and genetic and immunological analyses. Daily subcutaneous G-CSF administration is the treatment of choice and leads to a substantial increase in blood neutrophil count, reduction of infections and drastic improvement of quality of life. Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the alternative treatment. Regular clinical assessments (including yearly bone marrow examinations) to monitor treatment course and detect chromosomal abnormalities (for example, monosomy 7 and trisomy 21) as well as somatic pre-leukaemic mutations are recommended.

Indexed as

MutationAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingBlood Cell CountCongenital Bone Marrow Failure SyndromesCore Binding Factor Alpha 2 SubunitGranulocyte Colony-Stimulating FactorHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteLeukocyte ElastaseMyelodysplastic SyndromesNeutropeniaQuality of LifeReceptors, Colony-Stimulating FactorAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCore Binding Factor Alpha 2 SubunitCSF3R protein, humanGranulocyte Colony-Stimulating FactorHAX1 protein, humanLeukocyte ElastaseReceptors, Colony-Stimulating FactorRUNX1 protein, human

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PMID28593997
PMCPMC5821468
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