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ReviewNature genetics2022

The threat of programmed DNA damage to neuronal genome integrity and plasticity.

Keith W Caldecott, Michael E Ward, André Nussenzweig

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Review in Nature genetics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 84 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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Keith W CaldecottGenome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. k.w.caldecott@sussex.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-9016
Michael E WardNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. wardme@nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-8051
André NussenzweigLaboratory of Genome Integrity, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. andre_nussenzweig@nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8952-7268
National Human Genome Research Institute · USNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · USUniversity of Sussex · GB

Funding

DNA RepairZIABC010283 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSENZWEIG, ANDRE A. · 2009 to 2025
$27.0M
Relationship between DNA damage detection and signalingZIABC010959 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSENZWEIG, ANDRE A. · 2009 to 2025
$27.0M
Mechanisms of inherited neurodegenerative diseasesZIANS003155 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI WARD, MICHAEL · 2016 to 2025
$24.7M
Cancer Research UK C6563/A7322Medical Research Council MR/P010121/1Medical Research Council MR/W024128/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neuronal genome is particularly sensitive to loss or attenuation of DNA repair, and many neurological diseases ensue when DNA repair is impaired. It is well-established that the neuronal genome is subjected to stochastic DNA damage, most likely because of extensive oxidative stress in the brain. However, recent studies have identified unexpected high levels of 'programmed' DNA breakage in neurons, which we propose arise during physiological DNA metabolic processes intrinsic to neuronal development, differentiation and maintenance. The role of programmed DNA breaks in normal neuronal physiology and disease remains relatively unexplored thus far. However, bulk and single-cell sequencing analyses of neurodegenerative diseases have revealed age-related somatic mutational signatures that are enriched in regulatory regions of the genome. Here, we explore a paradigm of DNA repair in neurons, in which the genome is safeguarded from erroneous impacts of programmed genome breakage intrinsic to normal neuronal function.

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DNA BreaksDNA RepairGenomeAnimalsBrainDNA TopoisomerasesEpigenomeGenome, HumanHumansMutationNervous System DiseasesNeuronsRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidDNA Topoisomerases

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PMID35145299
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