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ReviewVirus genes2019

Human cytomegalovirus genomics and transcriptomics through the lens of next-generation sequencing: revision and future challenges.

Joan Martí-Carreras, Piet Maes

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Review in Virus genes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cytomegalovirus Genetic Diversity Following Primary Infection.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020
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  8. Ganciclovir Resistance-Linked Mutations in the HCMVDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  15. [Effect of breastfeeding on immune function in infants with human cytomegalovirus infection].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2023
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  19. [Effects of cytomegalovirus infection on infants' hearing and speech development].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2022
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joan Martí-CarrerasZoonotic Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, Box 1040, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0005-9761
Piet MaesZoonotic Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, Box 1040, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. piet.maes@kuleuven.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4571-5232
Rega Institute for Medical Research · BE

Funding

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (HONOURs) 721367
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) genome was sequenced by hierarchical shotgun almost 30 years ago. Over these years, low and high passaged strains have been sequenced, improving, albeit still far from complete, the understanding of the coding potential, expression dynamics and diversity of wild-type HCMV strains. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms have enabled a huge advancement, facilitating the comparison of differentially passaged strains, challenging diagnostics and research based on a single or reduced gene set genotyping. In addition, it allowed to link genetic features to different viral phenotypes as for example, correlating large genomic re-arrangements to viral attenuation or different mutations to antiviral resistance and cell tropism. NGS platforms provided the first high-resolution experiments to HCMV dynamics, allowing the study of intra-host viral population structures and the description of rare transcriptional events. Long-read sequencing has recently become available, helping to identify new genomic re-arrangements, partially accounting for the genetic variability displayed in clinical isolates, as well as, in changing the understanding of the HCMV transcriptome. Better knowledge of the transcriptome resulted in a vast number of new splicing events and alternative transcripts, although most of them still need additional validation. This review summarizes the sequencing efforts reached so far, discussing its approaches and providing a revision and new nuances on HCMV sequence variability in the sequencing field.

Indexed as

GenomicsCytomegalovirusDrug Resistance, ViralGenome, ViralHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMutationTranscriptomeGenetic variabilityGenomicsHuman cytomegalovirusHuman herpesvirus 5Long-read sequencingTranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID30604286
PMCPMC6458973
OpenAlexW2906738748

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