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ArticleNature2022

The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA.

Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Carl G de Boer, Jennifer Molinet, Moran Yassour, Lin Fan, Xian Adiconis, Dawn A Thompson, Joshua Z Levin, Francisco A Cubillos, Aviv Regev

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
145citing papers in PubMed
52.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

145 citing papers in PubMed, 285 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav *Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. edv@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3720-8051
Carl G de Boer *School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. carl.deboer@ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8935-5921
Jennifer MolinetDepartamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9716-4455
Moran YassourKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lin FanBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Xian AdiconisKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dawn A ThompsonBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Joshua Z LevinKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0170-3598
Francisco A CubillosDepartamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3022-469X
Aviv RegevKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. aviv.regev.sc@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-3158
Broad Institute · USUniversidad de Santiago de Chile · CL

Funding

Center for Cell CircuitsRM1HG006193 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI BLAINEY, PAUL CLARK, HACOHEN, NIR · 2016 to 2020
$14.9M
Learning the rules of enhancer activity to understand non-coding genetic variation in autoimmune diseaseK99HG009920 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI DE BOER, CARL · 2018 to 2019
$211k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS K99 HG009920NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG006193
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations in non-coding regulatory DNA sequences can alter gene expression, organismal phenotype and fitness

Indexed as

Genetic DriftModels, GeneticBiological EvolutionDNAEvolution, MolecularGene Expression RegulationMutationPhenotypeSaccharomyces cerevisiaeDNA

Identifiers

PMID35264797
PMCPMC8934302
OpenAlexW4221128536

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