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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2019

Convergent evolution in the genomics era: new insights and directions.

Timothy B Sackton, Nathan Clark

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Timothy B Sackton1 Informatics Group, Harvard University , Cambridge, MA , USA.
Nathan Clark2 Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh , PA , USA.

Funding

Title: Functional Annotation of Genomes via Phenotypic Convergence within Large Multi-species AlignmentsR01HG009299 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Maria D Chikina, Nathaniel L Clark · 2017 to 2026
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NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009299
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularAnimalsGenomeGenomicsPhenotypeVertebratescomparative genomicsconvergent evolutionpopulation genetics

Identifiers

PMID31154976
PMCPMC6560275

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