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Ning Liao, Hua Zhao, Min-Li Chen, Zheng-Fu Xie

Open access · goldAbstract readMeta-AnalysisReview

In one paragraph

Synthesis in Bioscience reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

Regulatory T Cell-Related Gene Polymorphisms are Associated with Risk of Lung Cancer in Patients with COPD.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
Article
The Role of Transforming Growth Factor-β (TGF-β) in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).Cells · 2024
Review
Genetic Variants Associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Risk: Cumulative Epidemiological Evidence from Meta-Analyses and Genome-Wide Association Studies.Canadian respiratory journal · 2022
Review
TGF-β1 polymorphism increases the risk of bleeding complications in patients on oral anticoagulant after cardiac valve replacement.Heart and vessels · 2021
Article
TGFB1 polymorphisms and TGF-β1 plasma levels identify gastric adenocarcinoma patients with lower survival rate and disseminated disease.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2021
Article

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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ning LiaoDepartment of Geriatrics and Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China.

Hua ZhaoDepartment of Geriatrics and Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China.

Min-Li ChenDepartment of Geriatrics and Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China.

Zheng-Fu XieDepartment of Geriatrics and Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China xie_zhengfu@yeah.net.

Guangxi Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been hypothesized that polymorphisms in the transforming growth factor-β1 (

Indexed as

Genetic Predisposition to DiseasePolymorphism, Single NucleotideFemaleHumansMalePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveTransforming Growth Factor beta1White PeopleTGFB1 protein, humanTransforming Growth Factor beta1Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasemeta-analysispolymorphismtransforming growth factor-β1

Identifiers

PMID28784933

DOI10.1042/BSR20170747

PMCPMC5577172

OpenAlexW2744373021

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Registered trials

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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.