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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Biomarkers in Rare Diseases.

Bridget E Bax

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Monocyte-Amplified Transcriptional Signatures of Human Diseases.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Metabolomics: a new frontier in neurodegenerative disease biomarker discovery.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 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

1 author.

Bridget E BaxInstitute of Molecular and Clinical Sciences, St. George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6306-080X

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K025406/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is no single global definition of a rare disease, and for different geographical areas the definition is based on the disease occurrence in that population [...].

Indexed as

BiomarkersDisease ManagementDisease SusceptibilityHumansRare DiseasesBiomarkers

Identifiers

PMID33445477
PMCPMC7827027

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Registered trials

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