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ArticleJournal of neuromuscular diseases

Report of a TREAT-NMD/World Duchenne Organisation Meeting on Dystrophin Quantification Methodology.

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Jennifer Morgan, Pallavi Lonkar, Hendrik Neubert, Jane Owens, Michael Binks, Marisol Montolio, Rahul Phadke, Nicole Datson, Judith Van Deutekom and 6 more

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Article in Journal of neuromuscular diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 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

16 authors at 9 institutions in 4 countries.

Annemieke Aartsma-RusLeiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Jennifer MorganDubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.
Pallavi LonkarWave Life Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Hendrik NeubertPfizer Inc, BioMedicine Design 1 Burtt Road, Andover, MA, USA.
Jane OwensPfizer Inc, Rare Disease Research Unit, 610 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Michael BinksPfizer Inc, Rare Disease Research Unit, 610 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Marisol MontolioDepartment of Cell Biology, Fisiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona.
Rahul PhadkeNational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.
Nicole DatsonBioMarin Nederland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Judith Van DeutekomBioMarin Nederland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Glenn E MorrisWolfson Centre for Inherited Neuromuscular Disease, Keele University and RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, UK.
V Ashutosh RaoCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, MD, USA.
Eric P HoffmanBinghamton University-SUNY, Binghamton, NY, USA and AGADA BioSciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Francesco MuntoniDubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.
Virginia Arechavala-GomezaBiocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain.
workshop participants
Pfizer (United States) · USGreat Ormond Street Hospital · GBBinghamton University · USBioMarin (Netherlands) · NLBioCruces Health research Institute · ESLeiden University Medical Center · NLNational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GBRobert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital · GBUnited States Food and Drug Administration · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Representatives of academia, patient organisations, industry and the United States Food and Drug Administration attended a workshop on dystrophin quantification methodology. The aims of the workshop were to provide an overview of methods used to quantify dystrophin levels in human skeletal muscle and their applicability to clinical trial samples, outline the gaps with regards to validating the methods for robust clinical applications prior to regulatory agency review, and to align future efforts towards further optimizing these methods. The workshop facilitated a constructive but also critical discussion on the potential and limitations of techniques currently used in the field of translational research (western blot and immunofluorescence analysis) and emerging techniques (mass spectrometry and capillary western immunoassay). Notably, all participants reported variation in dystrophin levels between muscle biopsies from different healthy individuals and agreed on the need for a common reference sample.

Indexed as

Clinical Laboratory TechniquesAnimalsDystrophinHumansMuscle, SkeletalMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneDystrophin

Identifiers

PMID30614809
PMCPMC6398559
OpenAlexW2906932199

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