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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

The Alter Retina: Alternative Splicing of Retinal Genes in Health and Disease.

Izarbe Aísa-Marín, Rocío García-Arroyo, Serena Mirra, Gemma Marfany

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In one paragraph

Review 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 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Neurodegenerative spliceosomopathies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
    Review
  4. Dynamic changes in mRNA isoform usage during human retinal development.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. Improving personalised genetic counselling forMedizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2025
    Article
  10. Review
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  14. Pathogenic Variants inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Article
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  16. Alternative RNA Splicing in the Retina: Insights and Perspectives.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2023
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Izarbe Aísa-MarínDepartament of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Avda. Diagonal 643, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3705-4806
Rocío García-ArroyoDepartament of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Avda. Diagonal 643, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2001-6814
Serena MirraDepartament of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Avda. Diagonal 643, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Gemma MarfanyDepartament of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Avda. Diagonal 643, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7941-983X
Instituto de Salud Carlos III · ESUniversitat de Barcelona · ES

Funding

Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR 738Instituto de Salud Carlos III postdoctoral contract CIBERERMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019-108578RB-I00Universitat de Barcelona APIF
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative splicing of mRNA is an essential mechanism to regulate and increase the diversity of the transcriptome and proteome. Alternative splicing frequently occurs in a tissue- or time-specific manner, contributing to differential gene expression between cell types during development. Neural tissues present extremely complex splicing programs and display the highest number of alternative splicing events. As an extension of the central nervous system, the retina constitutes an excellent system to illustrate the high diversity of neural transcripts. The retina expresses retinal specific splicing factors and produces a large number of alternative transcripts, including exclusive tissue-specific exons, which require an exquisite regulation. In fact, a current challenge in the genetic diagnosis of inherited retinal diseases stems from the lack of information regarding alternative splicing of retinal genes, as a considerable percentage of mutations alter splicing or the relative production of alternative transcripts. Modulation of alternative splicing in the retina is also instrumental in the design of novel therapeutic approaches for retinal dystrophies, since it enables precision medicine for specific mutations.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingGenetic Diseases, InbornRetinal DiseasesHumansRetinaalternative splicingdeep intronic variantsinherited retinal dystrophiesmicroexonsnon-canonical splice site variantsretinasplicing factors

Identifiers

PMID33673358
PMCPMC7917623
OpenAlexW3132793250

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