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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2022

Timing is everything: Clinical evidence supports pre-symptomatic treatment for spinal muscular atrophy.

Anna A L Motyl, Thomas H Gillingwater

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anna A L MotylEdinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Thomas H GillingwaterEdinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: t.gillingwater@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two new studies by Strauss et al. demonstrated safe and effective pre-symptomatic delivery of gene therapy in children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Indexed as

Muscular Atrophy, SpinalChildHumansInfant, NewbornNeonatal Screening

Identifiers

PMID35977471
PMCPMC9418840

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