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ArticleeLife2020

Differentiating

Steven Z DeLuca, Megha Ghildiyal, Liang-Yu Pang, Allan C Spradling

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 42 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Steven Z DeLucaHoward Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0683-8413
Megha GhildiyalHoward Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, United States.
Liang-Yu PangHoward Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8373-5656
Allan C SpradlingHoward Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5251-1801
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polycomb silencing represses gene expression and provides a molecular memory of chromatin state that is essential for animal development. We show that

Indexed as

AnimalsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsFemaleGene SilencingGerm CellsHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferasePolycomb-Group ProteinsPolycomb Repressive Complex 1Drosophila ProteinsHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferasePc protein, DrosophilaPolycomb-Group ProteinsPolycomb Repressive Complex 1PRC2 protein, DrosophilaSCM protein, DrosophilachromatinchromosomesdifferentiationD. melanogasterepigeneticgene expressionnurse cellpolycombPRC2

Identifiers

PMID32773039
PMCPMC7438113
OpenAlexW3047901383

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Registered trials

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