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ArticleLancet (London, England)2017

Sickle cell disease: tipping the balance of genomic research to catalyse discoveries in Africa.

Julie Makani, Solomon F Ofori-Acquah, Furahini Tluway, Nicola Mulder, Ambroise Wonkam

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  4. Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in Ghana.Science and engineering ethics · 2020
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  7. New approaches to genetic predisposition for hemorrhagic stroke in sickle cell disease.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2018
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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

5 authors.

Julie MakaniDepartment of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Electronic address: jmakani@blood.ac.tz.
Solomon F Ofori-AcquahCenter for Translational and International Hematology, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA; School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana.
Furahini TluwayDepartment of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
Nicola MulderComputational Biology Group, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Ambroise WonkamDivision of Human Genetics and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

Sickle Africa Data Coordinating CenterU24HL135600 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · PI MULDER, NICOLA, WONKAM, AMBROISE · 2017 to 2025
$8.6M
The Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium (SPARCO)U24HL135881 · NHLBI · MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY/ ALLIED HLTH SCIS · PI MAKANI, JULIE · 2017 to 2025
$5.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS U24 HL135600NHLBI NIH HHS U24 HL135881Wellcome Trust 093727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AfricaAnemia, Sickle CellBiomedical ResearchComputational BiologyDeveloping CountriesGenomicsHumansInternational Cooperation

Identifiers

PMID28635598
PMCPMC5612389

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