Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30195640›Full record

ReviewDNA repair2018

DNA double-strand breaks as drivers of neural genomic change, function, and disease.

Frederick W Alt, Bjoern Schwer

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In one paragraph

Review in DNA repair, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Divergent somatic mutation patterns among human cerebellar neuron types.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  14. Somatic Mosaicism in Brain Disorders.Annual review of pathology · 2025
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frederick W AltHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Genetics, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: alt@enders.tch.harvard.edu.
Bjoern SchwerDepartment of Neurological Surgery and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States. Electronic address: bjoern.schwer@ucsf.edu.
Boston Children's Hospital · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Elucidation of The Role Of SIRT6 In Neural Function, Aging, And NeurodegenerationK01AG043630 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SCHWER, BJOERN · 2012 to 2016
$647k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG043630
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early work from about two decades ago implicated DNA double-strand break (DSB) formation and repair in neuronal development. Findings emerging from recent studies of DSBs in proliferating neural progenitors and in mature, non-dividing neurons suggest important roles of DSBs in brain physiology, aging, cancer, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. We provide an overview of some findings and speculate on what may lie ahead.

Indexed as

DNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairNeurogenesisAnimalsDNAGenomeGenomic InstabilityHumansNeural Stem CellsDNACopy number variationsDNA double-strand breaksDNA repairDNA replicationExon shufflingGenomic instabilityNeural stem and progenitor cellsNeurodevelopmentNeuronsNon-homologous end joiningSomatic mosaicismTranscription

Identifiers

PMID30195640
PMCPMC6340756
OpenAlexW2888718906

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Registered trials

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