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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2018

KRAS Mutation and Consensus Molecular Subtypes 2 and 3 Are Independently Associated with Reduced Immune Infiltration and Reactivity in Colorectal Cancer.

Neeraj Lal, Brian S White, Ghaleb Goussous, Oliver Pickles, Mike J Mason, Andrew D Beggs, Philippe Taniere, Benjamin E Willcox, Justin Guinney, Gary W Middleton

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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104citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

104 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 164 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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Neeraj Lal *Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Brian S White *Computational Oncology, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, USA.
Ghaleb GoussousInstitute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Oliver PicklesInstitute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Mike J MasonComputational Oncology, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, USA.
Andrew D BeggsInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Philippe TaniereUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Benjamin E WillcoxInstitute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Justin GuinneyComputational Oncology, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, USA.
Gary W MiddletonInstitute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. g.middleton@bham.ac.uk.
University of Birmingham · GBUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK C31641/A23923Medical Research Council MR/M009157/1Medical Research Council MR/M016587/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 102732/Z/13/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorMutationChemokine CXCL10Colorectal NeoplasmsHumansImmunohistochemistryImmunomodulationInterferon-gammaLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)STAT1 Transcription FactorBiomarkers, TumorChemokine CXCL10CXCL10 protein, humanInterferon-gammaKRAS protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)STAT1 protein, humanSTAT1 Transcription Factor

Identifiers

PMID29061646
PMCPMC5777581
OpenAlexW2766186230

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