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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2020

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer - implications for care.

Sophie C Bonnal, Irene López-Oreja, Juan Valcárcel

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 487 papers.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

487 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sophie C BonnalCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-3042
Irene López-OrejaCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6756-1820
Juan ValcárcelCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain. juan.valcarcel@crg.eu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated generation of multiple mRNA and protein products from a single gene. Cancer cells have general as well as cancer type-specific and subtype-specific alterations in the splicing process that can have prognostic value and contribute to every hallmark of cancer progression, including cancer immune responses. These splicing alterations are often linked to the occurrence of cancer driver mutations in genes encoding either core components or regulators of the splicing machinery. Of therapeutic relevance, the transcriptomic landscape of cancer cells makes them particularly vulnerable to pharmacological inhibition of splicing. Small-molecule splicing modulators are currently in clinical trials and, in addition to splice site-switching antisense oligonucleotides, offer the promise of novel and personalized approaches to cancer treatment.

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Alternative SplicingHumansIntronsMutationNeoplasmsRNA, MessengerRNA PrecursorsRNA SplicingRNA, MessengerRNA Precursors

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