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ArticleNPJ aging and mechanisms of disease2018

A parthenogenetic quasi-program causes teratoma-like tumors during aging in wild-type

Hongyuan Wang, Yuan Zhao, Marina Ezcurra, Alexandre Benedetto, Ann F Gilliat, Josephine Hellberg, Ziyu Ren, Evgeniy R Galimov, Trin Athigapanich, Johannes Girstmair and 4 more

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Article in NPJ aging and mechanisms of disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Hongyuan Wang1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China.
Yuan Zhao2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Marina Ezcurra2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2739-6984
Alexandre Benedetto2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Ann F Gilliat2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Josephine Hellberg2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Ziyu Ren2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Evgeniy R Galimov2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Trin Athigapanich2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Johannes Girstmair5Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.
Maximilian J Telford5Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3749-5620
Colin T Dolphin6Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London, UK.
Zhizhou Zhang1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China.
David Gems2Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing · GBHarbin Institute of Technology · CNUniversity College London · GBKing's College London · GBQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
NIH HHS P40 OD010440Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A long-standing belief is that aging (senescence) is the result of stochastic damage accumulation. Alternatively, senescent pathology may also result from late-life, wild-type gene action (i.e., antagonistic pleiotropy, as argued by Williams) leading to non-adaptive run-on of developmental programs (or

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PMID29928508
PMCPMC5998035
OpenAlexW2806053340

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