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Trial reportCancer discovery2021

Discovery of Candidate DNA Methylation Cancer Driver Genes.

Heng Pan, Loïc Renaud, Ronan Chaligne, Johannes Bloehdorn, Eugen Tausch, Daniel Mertens, Anna Maria Fink, Kirsten Fischer, Chao Zhang, Doron Betel and 9 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Cancer discovery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  9. Toxics · 2025
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  14. Plasma methylatedFrontiers in medicine · 2025
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  18. A novel subtype based on driver methylation-transcription in lung adenocarcinoma.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024
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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

19 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Heng PanCaryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0002-5407-5687
Loïc RenaudNew York Genome Center, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0001-7213-9464
Ronan ChaligneNew York Genome Center, New York, New York.
Johannes BloehdornDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1433-9702
Eugen TauschDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Daniel MertensGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Anna Maria FinkGerman CLL Study Group, and Department I of Internal Medicine, and Center of Integrated Oncology ABCD, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Kirsten FischerGerman CLL Study Group, and Department I of Internal Medicine, and Center of Integrated Oncology ABCD, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Chao ZhangInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
Doron BetelInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0002-8006-7752
Andreas GnirkeBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-5324-6387
Marcin ImielinskiCaryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
Jérôme MoreauxIGH, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5717-3207
Michael HallekGerman CLL Study Group, and Department I of Internal Medicine, and Center of Integrated Oncology ABCD, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Alexander MeissnerBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Stephan StilgenbauerDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Catherine J WuBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-3348-5054
Olivier ElementoCaryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
Dan A LandauInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York. dlandau@nygenome.org.
Cornell University · USBroad Institute · USIntegrated Oncology (United States) · USUniversität Ulm · DECentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRGerman Cancer Research Center · DEInserm · FR

Funding

Shapeshifters in Cancer: Defining the Fundamental Forces of Leukemia EvolutionDP2CA239065 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI LANDAU, DAN · 2018 to 2018
$2.5M
Defining Epidrivers of CLL Evolution in Response to Targeted TherapyR01CA229902 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI LANDAU, DAN · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS DP2 CA239065NCI NIH HHS R01 CA229902
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic alterations, such as promoter hypermethylation, may drive cancer through tumor suppressor gene inactivation. However, we have limited ability to differentiate driver DNA methylation (DNAme) changes from passenger events. We developed DNAme driver inference-MethSig-accounting for the varying stochastic hypermethylation rate across the genome and between samples. We applied MethSig to bisulfite sequencing data of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), multiple myeloma, ductal carcinoma

Indexed as

DNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticHumansLeukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell

Identifiers

PMID33972312
PMCPMC8419066
OpenAlexW3161752886

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Registered trials

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