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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2022

The importance of offering early genetic testing in everyone with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Kristiana Salmon, Matthew C Kiernan, Seung H Kim, Peter M Andersen, Adriano Chio, Leonard H van den Berg, Philip Van Damme, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Patricia Lillo, Jinsy A Andrews and 1 more

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Integrating genetic testing into management of all patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a critical juncture.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
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  10. The Effect of Probiotics and Microbiota on Nervous System and Mental Illnesses.Central nervous system agents in medicinal chemistry · 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

11 authors.

Kristiana SalmonDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Matthew C KiernanBrain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9054-026X
Seung H KimDepartment of Neurology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9644-9598
Peter M AndersenDepartment of Clinical Science, Neurosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0094-5429
Adriano ChioALS Centre, Department of Neuroscience 'Rita Levi Montalcini', University of Torino, Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9579-5341
Leonard H van den BergDepartment of Neurology, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6559-3965
Philip Van DammeDepartment of Neurosciences, Laboratory for Neurobiology, KU Leuven and Center for Brain and Disease Research, VIB, Leuven Brain Institute, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-4010-2357
Ammar Al-ChalabiDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4924-7712
Patricia LilloDepartamento de Neurología Sur, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile and Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism, Santiago, Chile.ORCID 0000-0001-7398-7203
Jinsy A AndrewsThe Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center, The Neurological Institute, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3474-7140
Angela GengeDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Funding

Medical Research Council G0600974Medical Research Council MR/L501529/1Medical Research Council MR/R024804/1Motor Neurone Disease Association ALCHALABI-DOBSON/APR14/829-791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisGenetic TestingHumansMutation

Identifiers

PMID35020823
PMCPMC9129091

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