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ReviewCureus2017

Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase A1298C Polymorphism and Major Depressive Disorder.

Kevin Cho, Zubair M Amin, Jie An, Kerry Anne Rambaran, Tyler B Johnson, Saeed K Alzghari

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Review in Cureus, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
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  5. Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2019
    Article
  6. 5-HTTLPR andIndian journal of psychiatry
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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

6 authors.

Kevin ChoReference Health Laboratories, Gulfstream Diagnostics.
Zubair M AminThomas J. Long School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, University of the Pacific.
Jie AnGulfstream Genomics, Gulfstream Diagnostics.
Kerry Anne RambaranDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Keck Graduate Institute.
Tyler B JohnsonGulfstream Genomics, Gulfstream Diagnostics.
Saeed K AlzghariGulfstream Genomics, Gulfstream Diagnostics.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a disorder that carries significant psychosocial and economic implications. Research efforts have focused on identifying biomarkers that can aid in the prediction, diagnosis, and efficacious treatment of MDD. Most of this focus has been placed on a polymorphism of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (

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a1298cdepressionhomocysteinemajor depressive disordermethylenetetrahydrofolate reductasemthfrpolymorphismsingle nucleotide polymorphisms

Identifiers

PMID29209581
PMCPMC5711500

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