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ArticleNature2020

Epigenetic therapy induces transcription of inverted SINEs and ADAR1 dependency.

Parinaz Mehdipour, Sajid A Marhon, Ilias Ettayebi, Ankur Chakravarthy, Amir Hosseini, Yadong Wang, Fabíola Attié de Castro, Helen Loo Yau, Charles Ishak, Sagi Abelson and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 199 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
199citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

199 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 276 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Parinaz Mehdipour *Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. parinaz.mehdipour@uhnresearch.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4476-9925
Sajid A Marhon *Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1046-9852
Ilias Ettayebi *Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5964-3666
Ankur ChakravarthyPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Amir HosseiniPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Yadong WangPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Fabíola Attié de CastroPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Helen Loo YauPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-8593
Charles IshakPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sagi AbelsonOntario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Catherine A O'BrienPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Daniel D De CarvalhoPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ddecarv@uhnresearch.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8572-5259
University Health Network · CAUniversity of Toronto · CAOntario Institute for Cancer Research · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer therapies that target epigenetic repressors can mediate their effects by activating retroelements within the human genome. Retroelement transcripts can form double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) that activates the MDA5 pattern recognition receptor

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAdenosine DeaminaseAlu ElementsAnimalsCell Line, TumorCpG IslandsDecitabineDNA-Cytosine MethylasesDNA, IntergenicEpigenesis, GeneticFeedback, PhysiologicalHumansImmunity, InnateInterferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1IntronsInverted Repeat SequencesADAR protein, humanAdenosine DeaminaseDecitabineDNA-Cytosine MethylasesDNA, IntergenicIFIH1 protein, humanInterferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1RNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, Double-Stranded

Identifiers

PMID33087935
OpenAlexW3094058920

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