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ReviewCancers2019

Gene-Specific Targeting of DNA Methylation in the Mammalian Genome.

Arthur Urbano, Jim Smith, Robert J Weeks, Aniruddha Chatterjee

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Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arthur UrbanoDepartment of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, 56 Hanover Street, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. urbar374@student.otago.ac.nz.
Jim SmithDepartment of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, 56 Hanover Street, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. jimasmith1@gmail.com.
Robert J WeeksDepartment of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, 56 Hanover Street, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. rob.weeks@otago.ac.nz.
Aniruddha ChatterjeeDepartment of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, 56 Hanover Street, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. aniruddha.chatterjee@otago.ac.nz.
University of Otago · NZMaurice Wilkins Centre · NZ

Funding

Marsden grant (grant number 11465801PNE), a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to Dr Chatterjee (11495101PNE) and Maurice & Phyllis Paykel Trust (11459701PNE). Marsden grant (grant number 11465801PNE), a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to Dr Chatterjee (11495101PNE) and Maurice & Phyllis Paykel Trust (11459701PNE).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA methylation is the most widely-studied epigenetic modification, playing a critical role in the regulation of gene expression. Dysregulation of DNA methylation is implicated in the pathogenesis of numerous diseases. For example, aberrant DNA methylation in promoter regions of tumor-suppressor genes has been strongly associated with the development and progression of many different tumors. Accordingly, technologies designed to manipulate DNA methylation at specific genomic loci are very important, especially in the context of cancer therapy. Traditionally, epigenomic editing technologies have centered around zinc finger proteins (ZFP)- and transcription activator-like effector protein (TALE)-based targeting. More recently, however, the emergence of clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-deactivated Cas9 (dCas9)-based editing systems have shown to be a more specific and efficient method for the targeted manipulation of DNA methylation. Here, we describe the regulation of the DNA methylome, its significance in cancer and the current state of locus-specific editing technologies for altering DNA methylation.

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cancerCRISPRDNA methylationeditingepigenetics

Identifiers

PMID31600992
PMCPMC6827012
OpenAlexW2979583542

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