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ArticleActa neuropathologica communications2019

Response to the Letter from Garcia-Montojo and colleagues concerning our paper entitled, Quantitative analysis of human endogenous retrovirus-K transcripts in postmortem premotor cortex fails to confirm elevated expression of HERV-K RNA in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Jeremy A Garson, Louise Usher, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Jim Huggett, Edmund F Day, Adele L McCormick

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Article in Acta neuropathologica communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. HSV-1 and Endogenous Retroviruses as Risk Factors in Demyelination.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
  3. Endogenous Retroviruses in Nervous System Disorders.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Review
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jeremy A GarsonDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK. j.garson@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-0553-0126
Louise UsherSchool of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK.
Ammar Al-ChalabiMaurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
Jim HuggettMolecular and Cell Biology Team, LGC, Teddington, UK.
Edmund F DaySchool of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK.
Adele L McCormickSchool of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK.
University of Westminster · GBKing's College London · GBNHS Blood and Transplant · GBUniversity of Surrey · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G1100695Medical Research Council MR/R024804/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisEndogenous RetrovirusesMotor CortexAutopsyHumansRNARNAAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisHERV-KHuman endogenous retrovirusesRNART-qPCR

Identifiers

PMID31269988
PMCPMC6607588
OpenAlexW2955680607

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Registered trials

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