Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34006906›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2021

The role of phase I, phase II, and DNA-repair gene polymorphisms in the damage induced by formaldehyde in pathologists.

Federica Ghelli, Enrico Cocchi, Martina Buglisi, Giulia Squillacioti, Valeria Bellisario, Roberto Bono, Alfredo Santovito

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Federica GhelliDepartment of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Turin, Italy.
Enrico CocchiDepartment of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Turin, Italy.
Martina BuglisiDepartment of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Turin, Italy.
Giulia SquillaciotiDepartment of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Turin, Italy.
Valeria BellisarioDepartment of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Turin, Italy.
Roberto BonoDepartment of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Turin, Italy. roberto.bono@unito.it.
Alfredo SantovitoDepartment of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, 10123, Turin, Italy.
University of Turin · ITAccademia Albertina delle Belle Arti · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formaldehyde (FA) is a human carcinogen used as formalin in hospital laboratories. We evaluated its association with human chromosomal aberrations (CAs) and the risk/protective role played by several genetic polymorphisms in this relationship, on a cohort of 57 exposed pathologists vs 48 controls. All subjects were assessed for CAs on peripheral blood lymphocytes and genotyped for the most common cancer-associated gene polymorphisms which could be related with the genotoxic outcome: CYP1A1 exon 7 (A>G), CYP1A1*2A (T>C), CYP2C19*2 (G>A), GSTT1 (Positive/Null), GSTM1 (Positive/null), GSTP1 (A>G), XRCC1 (G399A), XRCC1 (C194T), XRCC1 (A280G), XPD (A751C), XPC exon 15 (A939C), XPC exon 9 (C499T), TNFα - 308 (G>A), IL10 - 1082 (G>A), IL10 - 819 (C>T) and IL6 - 174 (G>C). Air-FA concentration was assessed through personal samplers. The comparison between pathologists and controls showed a significantly higher CAs frequency in pathologists. Significant positive correlations were found between CAs frequency and air-FA concentration while significant associations were found between variation in CAs frequency and the mutated allele for CYP1A1 exon 7 (A>G), CYP2C19*2 (G>A), GSTT1-positive, GSTM1-positive and XRCC1 (G399A). Our study confirms the role of FA as genotoxicity inductor, even in workers chronically exposed to low air-FA levels and reveals the role played by some genetic polymorphisms in this association, highlighting the importance of individual susceptibility biomarkers assessment in occupational health studies.

Indexed as

Polymorphism, GeneticAdultDNA RepairFemaleFormaldehydeHumansMaleMiddle AgedFormaldehyde

Identifiers

PMID34006906
PMCPMC8131755
OpenAlexW3162840488

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.