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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2021

The relationship between genome structure and function.

A Marieke Oudelaar, Douglas R Higgs

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2021. 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 185 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
185citing papers in PubMed
13.4field-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

185 citing papers in PubMed, 326 citations in OpenAlex.

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125 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

A Marieke OudelaarMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. marieke.oudelaar@mpibpc.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4016-6158
Douglas R HiggsLaboratory of Gene Regulation, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. doug.higgs@imm.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-8705
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry · DEUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/T014067/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precise patterns of gene expression in metazoans are controlled by three classes of regulatory elements: promoters, enhancers and boundary elements. During differentiation and development, these elements form specific interactions in dynamic higher-order chromatin structures. However, the relationship between genome structure and its function in gene regulation is not completely understood. Here we review recent progress in this field and discuss whether genome structure plays an instructive role in regulating gene expression or is a reflection of the activity of the regulatory elements of the genome.

Indexed as

AnimalsChromatinEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression RegulationGenomeHumansPromoter Regions, GeneticChromatin

Identifiers

PMID33235358
OpenAlexW3109356327

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Registered trials

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