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ArticleCancers2022

Biomarkers Associated with Immune-Related Adverse Events under Checkpoint Inhibitors in Metastatic Melanoma.

Marcus Wölffer, Florian Battke, Martin Schulze, Magdalena Feldhahn, Lukas Flatz, Peter Martus, Andrea Forschner

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marcus WölfferDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Florian BattkeCenter for Genomics and Transcriptomics (CeGaT) GmbH, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6021-5837
Martin SchulzePractice for Human Genetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Magdalena FeldhahnCenter for Genomics and Transcriptomics (CeGaT) GmbH, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Lukas FlatzDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Peter MartusInstitute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biostatistics (IKEaB), 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Andrea ForschnerDepartment of Dermatology, University Hospital Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6185-4945
University of Tübingen · DECeGaT (Germany) · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized the therapeutic landscape of metastatic melanoma. However, ICI are often associated with immune-related adverse events (IRAE) such as colitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, hypophysitis, pneumonitis, thyroiditis, exanthema, nephritis, myositis, encephalitis, or myocarditis. Biomarkers associated with the occurrence of IRAE would be desirable. In the literature, there is only little data available and furthermore mostly speculative, especially in view of genetic alterations. Our major aim was to check for possible associations between NGS-based genetic alterations and IRAE. We therefore analyzed 95 melanoma patients with ICI and evaluated their NGS results. We checked the data in view of potential associations between copy number variations (CNVs), small variations (VARs), human leucocyte antigen (HLA), sex, blood count parameters, pre-existing autoimmune diseases and the occurrence of IRAE. We conducted a literature research on genetic alterations hypothesized to be associated with the occurrence of IRAE. In total, we identified 39 genes that have been discussed as hypothetical biomarkers. We compared the list of these 39 genes with the tumor panel that our patients had received and focused our study on those 16 genes that were also included in the tumor panel used for NGS. Therefore, we focused our analyses on the following genes:

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genetic alterationsimmune-related adverse eventsimmunotherapiesmelanoma

Identifiers

PMID35053465
PMCPMC8773840
OpenAlexW4206053292

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