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ArticleNucleic acid therapeutics2021

Transcriptome-Wide Off-Target Effects of Steric-Blocking Oligonucleotides.

Erle M Holgersen, Shreshth Gandhi, Yongchao Zhou, Jinkuk Kim, Brandon Vaz, Jovanka Bogojeski, Magdalena Bugno, Zvi Shalev, Kahlin Cheung-Ong, João Gonçalves and 8 more

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Article in Nucleic acid therapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

18 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Erle M HolgersenDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Shreshth GandhiDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Yongchao ZhouDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Jinkuk KimDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Brandon VazDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Jovanka BogojeskiDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Magdalena BugnoDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Zvi ShalevDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Kahlin Cheung-OngDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
João GonçalvesDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Matthew O'HaraDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Ken KronDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Marta VerbyDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Mark SunDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Boyko KakaradovDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Andrew DelongDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Daniele MericoDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3728-4401
Amit G DeshwarDeep Genomics, Inc., Toronto, Canada.
Ontario Genomics · CAHospital for Sick Children · CAKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · KRProvidence Health Care · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Steric-blocking oligonucleotides (SBOs) are short, single-stranded nucleic acids designed to modulate gene expression by binding to RNA transcripts and blocking access from cellular machinery such as splicing factors. SBOs have the potential to bind to near-complementary sites in the transcriptome, causing off-target effects. In this study, we used RNA-seq to evaluate the off-target differential splicing events of 81 SBOs and differential expression events of 46 SBOs. Our results suggest that differential splicing events are predominantly hybridization driven, whereas differential expression events are more common and driven by other mechanisms (including spurious experimental variation). We further evaluated the performance of

Indexed as

OligonucleotidesTranscriptomeAlternative SplicingOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNARNA SplicingOligonucleotidesOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNAoff-target effectssplice-switchingsteric-blocking oligonucleotides

Identifiers

PMID34388351
PMCPMC8713556
OpenAlexW3190699003

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