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ArticleProtein & cell2018

Help, hope and hype: ethical considerations of human microbiome research and applications.

Yonghui Ma, Hua Chen, Canhui Lan, Jianlin Ren

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Article in Protein & cell, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Microbial Biotechnology in Medicine.Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026
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  15. The Gut Mycobiome for Precision Medicine.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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

4 authors.

Yonghui MaCentre for Bioethics, Medical College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China. yhma@xmu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5787-8445
Hua ChenCenter for Bioethics, School of Marxism, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Canhui LanBeijing Rexinchang Biotechnology Research Institute Co. Ltd, Beijing, China.
Jianlin RenInstitute for Human Microbiome Research, Medical College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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MicrobiotaBiomedical ResearchHumansResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID29675808
PMCPMC5960465

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