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ArticleeLife2017

Pervasive epigenetic effects of

Yuh Chwen G Lee, Gary H Karpen

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
74citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
31.4field-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

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

74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuh Chwen G LeeDivision of Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0081-7892
Gary H KarpenDivision of Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1534-0385
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · US

Funding

Organization and Function of the Heterochromatin Holodomain and SubdomainsR01GM117420 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI KARPEN, GARY H · 2016 to 2019
$2.5M
Functional and evolutionary consequences of the epigenetic effects of transposable elementsK99GM121868 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI LEE, GRACE YUH CHWEN · 2017 to 2018
$180k
NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM121868NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) are widespread genomic parasites, and their evolution has remained a critical question in evolutionary genomics. Here, we study the relatively unexplored

Indexed as

DNA Transposable ElementsEpigenesis, GeneticEvolution, MolecularAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila simulansDNA Transposable ElementsD. melanogasterEpigeneticsevolutionary biologygenomicsPopulation geneticsTransposable elements

Identifiers

PMID28695823
PMCPMC5505702
OpenAlexW2735598114

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