Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32117462›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in genetics2020

Spinal Muscular Atrophy in the Black South African Population: A Matter of Rearrangement?

Elana Vorster, Fahmida B Essop, John L Rodda, Amanda Krause

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Diagnosing missed cases of spinal muscular atrophy in genome, exome, and panel sequencing data sets.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025
    Article
  4. Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Neurology. Genetics · 2021
    Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Intragenic and structural variation in theBrain communications · 2020
    Article
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.

Elana VorsterNational Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fahmida B EssopNational Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
John L RoddaDepartment of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Amanda KrauseNational Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
University of the Witwatersrand · ZANational Health Laboratory Service · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder, characterized by muscle atrophy and impaired mobility. A homozygous deletion of survival motor neuron 1 (

Indexed as

copy number variationsmultiplex ligation-dependent probe amplificationrearrangementSouth Africaspinal muscular atrophysurvival motor neuron 1survival motor neuron 2

Identifiers

PMID32117462
PMCPMC7033609
OpenAlexW3006646050

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.