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ArticleFrontiers in public health2020

Extensive Homoplasy but No Evidence of Convergent Evolution of Repeat Numbers at MIRU Loci in Modern

Alexander C Outhred, Ulziijargal Gurjav, Peter Jelfs, Nadine McCallum, Qinning Wang, Grant A Hill-Cawthorne, Ben J Marais, Vitali Sintchenko

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
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  3. Molecular Diversity ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alexander C OuthredMarie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ulziijargal GurjavDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Peter JelfsCenter for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Nadine McCallumDeep Seq Lab, Queen's Medical Center, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Qinning WangCenter for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Grant A Hill-CawthorneMarie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ben J MaraisMarie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Vitali SintchenkoMarie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More human deaths have been attributable to

Indexed as

Mycobacterium tuberculosisBacterial Typing TechniquesHumansInterspersed Repetitive SequencesMinisatellite RepeatsMolecular Epidemiologyconvergent evolutionhomoplasyMIRUMycobacterium tuberculosisphylogenysensitivityspecificityVNTR

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PMID32974265
PMCPMC7481465

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