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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020

Significance of Tumor Mutation Burden in Immune Infiltration and Prognosis in Cutaneous Melanoma.

Kai Kang, Fucun Xie, Jinzhu Mao, Yi Bai, Xiang Wang

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kai KangDepartment of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Fucun XieDepartment of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jinzhu MaoDepartment of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yi BaiDepartment of Liver Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xiang WangDepartment of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

bioinformatics analysiscutaneous melanomafunctional enrichment analysisgene expression profileimmune infiltrationprognosistumor mutation burden

Identifiers

PMID33072607
PMCPMC7531222

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