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ReviewCancers2020

The Effects of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Cancer RNAi Therapies.

Magdalena Gebert, Maciej Jaśkiewicz, Adrianna Moszyńska, James F Collawn, Rafał Bartoszewski

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 38% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Non-coding RNA-mediated gene regulation in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis: molecular insights and emerging innovations.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2025
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  4. Polymorphism of Keratin GeneAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Magdalena GebertDepartment of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland.
Maciej JaśkiewiczDepartment of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4797-2635
Adrianna MoszyńskaDepartment of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland.
James F CollawnDepartment of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2528-2759
Rafał BartoszewskiDepartment of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2864-6757
Gdańsk Medical University · PLUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

UAB CF Research and Translation Core CenterP30DK072482 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI AMIT GAGGAR · 2007 to 2026
$23.0M
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ROWE15R0Medical University of Gdansk ST-02-0045/07/503NIH HHS P30 DK072482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tremendous progress in RNAi delivery methods and design has allowed for the effective development of siRNA-based therapeutics that are currently under clinical investigation for various cancer treatments. This approach has the potential to revolutionize cancer therapy by providing the ability to specifically downregulate or upregulate the mRNA of any protein of interest. This exquisite specificity, unfortunately, also has a downside. Genetic variations in the human population are common because of the presence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). SNPs lead to synonymous and non-synonymous changes and they occur once in every 300 base pairs in both coding and non-coding regions in the human genome. Much less common are the somatic mosaicism variations associated with genetically distinct populations of cells within an individual that is derived from postzygotic mutations. These heterogeneities in the population can affect the RNAi's efficacy or more problematically, which can lead to unpredictable and sometimes adverse side effects. From a more positive viewpoint, both SNPs and somatic mosaicisms have also been implicated in human diseases, including cancer, and these specific changes could offer the ability to effectively and, more importantly, selectively target the cancer cells. In this review, we discuss how SNPs in the human population can influence the development and success of novel anticancer RNAi therapies and the importance of why SNPs should be carefully considered.

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gene therapymicroRNARNAi therapysiRNASNPs

Identifiers

PMID33113880
PMCPMC7694039
OpenAlexW3093659999

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Registered trials

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