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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2019

The Association Between Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis Risk: 1,25(OH)

Ming Lu, Bennet J McComish, Kathryn P Burdon, Bruce V Taylor, Heinrich Körner

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Investigation of the causal effect and molecular signatures of serum hydroxyvitamin D on atherosclerosis: a Mendelian randomization and transcriptomic approach.The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2026
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  5. Multiple sclerosis: molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic intervention.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025
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  6. Aberrant Enhancer Regulation, Phase Separation, and Autoimmune Diseases.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025
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  13. 1,25(OH)Nutrients · 2022
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  20. Deciphering GRINA/Lifeguard1: Nuclear Location, CaInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ming LuMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
Bennet J McComishMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
Kathryn P BurdonMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
Bruce V TaylorMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
Heinrich KörnerMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
University of Tasmania · AUAnhui Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A super-enhancer (SE) is a cluster of enhancers with a relatively high density of particular chromatin features. SEs typically regulate key genes that can determine cell identity and differentiation. Identifying SEs and their effects may be critical in predicting key regulatory genes, such as master transcription factor genes or oncogenes. Signal inducible SEs are dense stretches of signal terminal transcription factor (TF) binding regions, and may modulate the interaction between environmental factors (e.g., Vitamin D) and genetic factors (i.e., risk variants) in complex diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). As a complex autoimmune disease, the etiology and progression of MS, including the interaction between Vitamin D and MS risk variants, is still unclear and can be explored from the aspect of signal SEs. Vitamin D [with its active form: 1,25(OH)

Indexed as

CalcitriolCells, CulturedChromatinEnhancer Elements, GeneticHumansMultiple SclerosisPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReceptors, CalcitriolTHP-1 CellsTranscription FactorsVitamin DCalcitriolChromatinReceptors, CalcitriolTranscription FactorsVDR protein, humanVitamin Dinducible super-enhancermultiple sclerosisrisk allelevitamin Dvitamin D receptor

Identifiers

PMID30941131
PMCPMC6433938
OpenAlexW2916880807

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