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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2020

Mediastinal germ cell tumors: many questions and perhaps an answer.

J Wolter Oosterhuis, Leendert Hj Looijenga

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J Wolter OosterhuisDepartment of Pathology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Leendert Hj LooijengaPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Erasmus MC Cancer Institute · NLPrincess Máxima Center · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some germ cell tumors (GCTs) in men develop into hematologic malignancies; however, the clonal origins of such malignancies remain unknown. In this issue of the JCI, Taylor, Donoghue, et al. unravel the clonal relationship between primary mediastinal nonseminomas (PMNs) and hematologic somatic-type malignancies (HSTMs). Whole-exome sequencing was used to construct phylogenetic trees of the PMNs and the ensuing HSTM clones. HSTMs were derived from multiple distinct clones not detected within the PMNs. Clones from PMNs and HSTMs shared a common precursor, arguably an embryonal carcinoma cell resulting from a reprogrammed primordial germ cell from the thymus. Mutational and copy number variation analysis of a large cohort of patients with PMNs also demonstrated a high prevalence of TP53 mutations not found in testicular nonseminomas. These data likely explain why patients with PMNs are frequently resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy and provide TP53 mutations as potential targets.

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Hematologic NeoplasmsNeoplasms, Germ Cell and EmbryonalTesticular NeoplasmsDNA Copy Number VariationsHumansMalePhylogeny

Identifiers

PMID33196463
PMCPMC7685715
OpenAlexW3099453872

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