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ArticleCirculation. Genomic and precision medicine2018

Variants of Uncertain Significance: Should We Revisit How They Are Evaluated and Disclosed?

Ana Morales, Ray E Hershberger

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Article in Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ana MoralesDivisions of Human Genetics (A.M., R.E.H.) ana.morales@osumc.edu.
Ray E HershbergerDivisions of Human Genetics (A.M., R.E.H.).

Funding

Precision Medicine for Dilated Cardiomyopathy in European and African AncestryR01HL128857 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HERSHBERGER, RAY E. · 2015 to 2020
$12.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL128857
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Genetic CounselingGenomicsHumansUncertaintyEditorialsfrustrationgenetic counselinggenetic variationintentionuncertainty

Identifiers

PMID29848615
PMCPMC5999032

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