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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

COVID-19 Is a Multi-Organ Aggressor: Epigenetic and Clinical Marks.

Mankgopo Magdeline Kgatle, Ismaheel Opeyemi Lawal, Gabriel Mashabela, Tebatso Moshoeu Gillian Boshomane, Palesa Caroline Koatale, Phetole Walter Mahasha, Honest Ndlovu, Mariza Vorster, Hosana Gomes Rodrigues, Jan Rijn Zeevaart and 3 more

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 37 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

13 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Mankgopo Magdeline KgatleNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Ismaheel Opeyemi LawalNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Gabriel MashabelaSAMRC/NHLS/UCT Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit, DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, Department of Pathology and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Tebatso Moshoeu Gillian BoshomaneNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Palesa Caroline KoataleNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Phetole Walter MahashaPrecision Medicine and SAMRC Genomic Centre, Grants, Innovation, and Product Development (GIPD) Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa.
Honest NdlovuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria & Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Mariza VorsterDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria & Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Hosana Gomes RodriguesLaboratory of Nutrients and Tissue Repair, School of Applied Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
Jan Rijn ZeevaartNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Siamon GordonGraduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
Pedro Moura-AlvesLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mike Machaba SathekgeNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Steve Biko Hospital · ZASouth African Medical Research Council · ZAUniversity of Pretoria · ZAChang Gung University · TWLudwig Cancer Research · GBUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) · BRUniversity of Cape Town · ZAUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The progression of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), resulting from a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, may be influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Several viruses hijack the host genome machinery for their own advantage and survival, and similar phenomena might occur upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. Severe cases of COVID-19 may be driven by metabolic and epigenetic driven mechanisms, including DNA methylation and histone/chromatin alterations. These epigenetic phenomena may respond to enhanced viral replication and mediate persistent long-term infection and clinical phenotypes associated with severe COVID-19 cases and fatalities. Understanding the epigenetic events involved, and their clinical significance, may provide novel insights valuable for the therapeutic control and management of the COVID-19 pandemic. This review highlights different epigenetic marks potentially associated with COVID-19 development, clinical manifestation, and progression.

Indexed as

COVID-19DNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticHumansOrgan SpecificityPandemicsSARS-CoV-2ACE2COVID-19cytokine stormepigeneticsmulti-organpro-inflammatory cytokinesSARS-CoV-2TMPRSS2

Identifiers

PMID34691068
PMCPMC8531724
OpenAlexW3200835024

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