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ReviewMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2022

Consensus guidelines for the validation of qRT-PCR assays in clinical research by the CardioRNA consortium.

David de Gonzalo-Calvo, Monica Marchese, Jan Hellemans, Fay Betsou, Nanna Lond Skov Frisk, Louise Torp Dalgaard, Päivi Lakkisto, Carole Foy, Andreas Scherer, María Laura Garcia Bermejo and 2 more

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Review in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

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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

12 authors.

David de Gonzalo-CalvoTranslational Research in Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain.
Monica MarcheseIntegrated Bed to Bench Operations (IBBO), Luxembourg Institute of Health, 1445 Strassen, Luxembourg.
Jan HellemansBiogazelle, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
Fay BetsouLaboratoire National de Santé (LNS), 3555 Dudelange, Luxembourg.
Nanna Lond Skov FriskDepartment of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
Louise Torp DalgaardDepartment of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
Päivi LakkistoMinerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, 00290 Helsinki, Finland.
Carole FoyNational Measurement Laboratory, LGC, Teddington TW11 0LY, UK.
Andreas SchererInstitute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, Helsinki Institute for Life Science HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
María Laura Garcia BermejoEuropean Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine EATRIS, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Yvan DevauxCardiovascular Research Unit, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, 1A-B rue Edison, 1445 Strassen, Luxembourg.
EU-CardioRNA COST Action CA17129 (https://cardiorna.eu/)

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite promising findings, quantitative PCR (qPCR)-based tests for RNA quantification have experienced serious limitations in their clinical application. The noticeable lack of technical standardization remains a huge obstacle in the translation of qPCR-based tests. The incorporation of qPCR-based tests into the clinic will benefit from guidelines for clinical research assay validation. This will ultimately impact the clinical management of the patient, including diagnosis, prognosis, prediction, monitoring of the therapeutic response, and evaluation of toxicity. However, clear assay validation protocols for biomarker investigation in clinical trials using molecular assays are currently lacking

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assay validationclinical research assaysnoncoding RNAPCRRNA

Identifiers

PMID35118162
PMCPMC8792405

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