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ReviewBiology2021

SnoRNA in Cancer Progression, Metastasis and Immunotherapy Response.

Jildou van der Werf, Chue Vin Chin, Nicholas Ian Fleming

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Review in Biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
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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

50 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Large Language Models for Non-Coding RNA Biomarker Discovery in Breast Cancer.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  17. Impacts of ribosomal RNA sequence variation on gene expression and phenotype.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 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

3 authors.

Jildou van der WerfDepartment of Pathology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-4485-0878
Chue Vin ChinDepartment of Pathology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
Nicholas Ian FlemingDepartment of Pathology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) were one of our earliest recognised classes of non-coding RNA, but were largely ignored by cancer investigators due to an assumption that their activities were confined to the nucleolus. However, as full genome sequences have become available, many new snoRNA genes have been identified, and multiple studies have shown their functions to be diverse. The consensus now is that many snoRNA are dysregulated in cancers, are differentially expressed between cancer types, stages and metastases, and they can actively modify disease progression. In addition, the regulation of the snoRNA class is dominated by the cancer-supporting mTOR signalling pathway, and they may have particular significance to immune cell function and anti-tumour immune responses. Given the recent advent of therapeutics that can target RNA molecules, snoRNA have robust potential as drug targets, either solely or in the context of immunotherapies.

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cancerimmune checkpoint inhibitorsimmunotherapymTORribosomesnoRNA

Identifiers

PMID34440039
PMCPMC8389557

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